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List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives

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Field	Value
post	Speaker
body	the Alaska House of Representatives
incumbent	Bryce Edgmon
insignia	Seal of the State of Alaska.svg
insigniacaption	Alaskan state seal
incumbentsince	January 21, 2025
first	Earnest B. Collins
formation	1913

This is a list of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives. The speaker is the presiding officer of the Alaska House of Representatives. This list covers both the territorial House (convened mostly biennially between 1913 and 1957) and the state House (convened annually since 1959).

Speakers

Territorial House

No.	Name	Image	Party	Hometown	Division	Term	Legislatures
1	Earnest B. Collins			Republican	Fox	4th	1913 – 1917	First, Second
2	Luther C. Hess			Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1917 – 1919	Third
3	E. J. White			Democratic	Juneau	1st	1919 – 1921	Fourth
4	Andrew Nerland			Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1921 – 1923	Fifth
5	Cash Cole			Republican	Juneau	1st	1923 – 1925	Sixth
6	C. H. Wilcox			Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1925 – 1927	Seventh
7	Sumner S. Smith			Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1927 – 1929	Eighth
8	R. C. Rothenburg			Independent Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1929 – 1931	Ninth
9	Grover C. Winn			Republican	Juneau	1st	1931 – 1933	Tenth
10	Joe McDonald			Democratic	Ester Creek	4th	1933 – 1935	Eleventh
11	Joseph S. Hofman			Democratic	Seward	3rd	1935 – 1937	Twelfth
12	Joe Green			Democratic	Hyder	1st	1937 – 1939	Thirteenth
13	Howard Lyng			Democratic	Nome	2nd	1939 – 1941	Fourteenth
14	Herbert H. McCutcheon			Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1941 – 1943	Fifteenth
15	James V. Davis			Democratic	Juneau	1st	1943 – 1945	Sixteenth
16	Jesse D. Lander			Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1945 – 1947	Seventeenth
17	Oscar S. Gill			Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1947 – 1949	Eighteenth
18	Stanley McCutcheon			Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1949 – 1951	Nineteenth
19	William A. Egan	[[File:William A. Egan.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1951 – 1953	Twentieth
20	George Miscovich			Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1953 – 1955	Twenty-First
21	Wendell P. Kay	[[File:Wendell P. Kay.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1955 – 1957	Twenty-Second
22	Richard J. Greuel			Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1957 – 1959	Twenty-Third

State House

No.	Name	Image	Party	Hometown	District	Term	Legislatures
1	Warren A. Taylor			Democratic	Fairbanks	19	1959 – 1963	First, Second
2	Bruce Kendall			Republican	Anchorage	8	1963 – 1965	Third
3	Mike Gravel	[[File:Mike Gravel 1973.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Anchorage	8	1965 – 1967	Fourth
4	William K. Boardman			Republican	Ketchikan	1	1967 – 1969	Fifth
5	Jalmar M. Kerttula	[[File:Jay Kerttula.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Palmer	7	1969 – 1971	Sixth
6	Gene Guess	[[File:GuessGene.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Anchorage	8	1971 – 1973	Seventh
7	Tom Fink	[[File:Tom Fink.jpg	100px]]		Republican	Anchorage	8	1973 – 1975	Eighth
8	Mike Bradner	[[File:Mike Bradner.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Fairbanks	20	1975 – 1977	Ninth
9	Hugh Malone	[[File:Hugh Malone 1977.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Kenai	13	1977 – 1979	Tenth
10	Terry Gardiner	[[File:Terry Gardiner 1977.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Ketchikan	1	1979 – 1981	Eleventh
11	Jim Duncan	[[File:Jim Duncan 1977.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Juneau	4	1981 – 1981	Twelfth
12	Joseph L. Hayes	[[File:Joe L. Hayes.jpg	100px]]		Republican
(Tri-Partisan Coalition)	Anchorage	12, 9	1981 – 1985	Twelfth, Thirteenth
13	Ben F. Grussendorf			Democratic	Sitka	3	1985 – 1989	Fourteenth, Fifteenth
14	Samuel R. Cotten	[[File:Sam Cotten.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Eagle River	15	1989 – 1991	Sixteenth
15	Ben F. Grussendorf			Democratic	Sitka	3	1991 – 1993	Seventeenth
16	Ramona L. Barnes	[[File:Ramona Barnes.jpg	100px]]		Republican
(Republican majority coalition)	Anchorage	22	1993 – 1995	Eighteenth
17	Gail Phillips	[[File:Gail Phillips (cropped).jpg	100px]]		Republican	Homer	7	1995 – 1999	Nineteenth, Twentieth
18	Brian Porter			Republican	Anchorage	20	1999 – 2003	Twenty-First, Twenty-Second
19	Pete Kott			Republican	Eagle River	17	2003 – 2005	Twenty-Third
20	John Harris			Republican	Valdez	12	2005 – 2009	Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth
21	Mike Chenault	[[File:Mike Chenault crop.jpg	100px]]		Republican	Nikiski	34	2009 – 2017	Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth
22	Bryce Edgmon	[[File:2013 edgmon portrait.jpg	100px]]		Democratic	Dillingham	37	2017 – 2021	Thirtieth, Thirty-first
	Independent
(Democratic majority coalition)
23	Louise Stutes	[[File:Louise Stutes (cropped).jpg	100px]]		Republican
(Democratic majority coalition)	Kodiak	32	2021 – 2023	Thirty-second
23	Cathy Tilton	[[File:Cathy Tilton (cropped).jpg	100px]]		Republican
(Republican majority coalition)	Wasilla	26	2023 – 2025	Thirty-third
24	Bryce Edgmon	[[File:2013 edgmon portrait.jpg	100px]]		Independent
(Democratic majority coalition)	Dillingham	37	2025 – present	Thirty-fourth

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