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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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