List of speakers of the Kentucky House of Representatives

The following is a list of speakers of the Kentucky House of Representatives since statehood.

Speaker of Kentucky House of Representatives
Seal of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Incumbent David W. Osborne since November 4, 2017
Status	Presiding officer
Seat	Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort
Appointer	Kentucky House of Representatives
Inaugural holder	Robert Breckinridge

Speakers of the Kentucky House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
Robert Breckinridge	1792–1796	Democratic-Republican			[1]
Edmund Bullock	1796–1799	Democratic-Republican			[1]
John Breckinridge	1799–1801	Democratic-Republican			[1]
John Adair	1801–1803	Democratic-Republican			[1]
William Logan	1803–1807	Democratic-Republican			[1]
Henry Clay	1807–1808	Democratic-Republican			[1]
William Logan	1808–1810	Democratic-Republican			[1]
John Simpson	1810–1812	Democratic-Republican			[1]
Joseph T. Hawkins	1812–1814	Democratic-Republican			[1]
William T. Barry	1814–1815	Democratic-Republican			[1]
John J. Crittenden	1815–1817	Democratic-Republican			[1]
Cabell Breckinridge	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican			[1]
Martin D. Hardin	1819–1820	Democratic-Republican	Madison County		[1]
George Claiborne Thompson	1820–1822		Mercer County		[1]
Richard C. Anderson	1822–1823		Jefferson County		[1]
George Robertson	1823–1824	Democratic-Republican	Fayette County		[1]
Robert J. Ward	1824–1825		Scott County		[1]
George Robertson	1825–1827	Democratic-Republican	Fayette County		[1]
John Speed Smith	1827–1828	Democratic-Republican	Madison County		[1]
Tunstall Quarles	1828–1829	Democratic-Republican	Pulaski County		[1]
John J. Crittenden	1829–1833	Democratic-Republican	Franklin County		[1]
Richard B. New	1833–1834		Trigg County		[1]
Charles A. Wickliffe	1834–1835	Whig	Nelson County		[1]
John L. Helm	1835–1837	Whig	Hardin County		[1]
Robert P. Letcher	1837–1839	Whig	Garrard County		[1]
John L. Helm	1839–1840	Whig	Hardin County		[1]
Charles S. Morehead	1840–1842	Whig	Franklin County		[1]
John L. Helm	1842–1844	Whig	Hardin County		[1]
Charles S. Morehead	1844–1845	Whig	Franklin County		[1]
Joseph R. Underwood	1845–1846	Whig	Warren County		[1]
Leslie Combs	1846–1847	Whig	Fayette County		[1]
James F. Buckner	1847–1848	Whig	Christian County		[1]
Gwyn Page	1848–1849	Whig	Jeferson County		[1]
Thomas W. Riley	1849–1850	Whig	Nelson County		[1]
G. W. Johnston	1850–1851	Whig	Shelby County		[1]
George Robertson	1851–1853	Whig	Fayette County		[1]
Charles G. Wintersmith	1853–1855	Whig	Hardin County		[1]
John B. Huston	1855–1857	Know Nothing	Clark County		[1]
Daniel P. White	1857–1859	Democratic	Green County		[1]
David Meriwether	1859–1861	Democratic	Jefferson County		[1]
Richard A. Buckner	1861–1863	Unionist	Fayette County		[1]
Harrison Taylor	1863–1867	Democratic	Mason County		[2][1]
John T. Bunch	1867–1871		Louisville		[2]
James B. McCreary	1871–1874	Democratic	Madison County		[2]
William Johnson Stone	1875–1876	Democratic	Lyon County		[2]
Ed W. Turner	1877–1878	Democratic	Madison County		[2]
Joseph M. Bigger	1879–1880	Democratic	McCracken County		[2]
William Claiborne Owens	1881–1882	Democratic	Scott County		[2]
Charles Offutt	1883–1886	Democratic	Bourbon County		[2]
Ben Johnson	1887–1888	Democratic	Nelson County		[2]
Harvey Myers	1889–1890	Democratic	Kenton County		[2]
William M. Moore	1891–1894	Democratic	Harrison County		[2]
A. J. Carroll	1894–1896	Democratic	Jefferson County		[2]
Charles J. Blandford	1896–1898	Republican	Breckinridge County		[2]
J. C. W. Beckham	1898–1900	Democratic	Nelson County		[2]
South Trimble	1900–1902	Democratic	Franklin County		[2][3]
Gerald T. Finn	1902–1904	Democratic	Simpson County		[3]
Eli H. Brown	1904–1906	Democratic	Daviess County		[3]
Henry R. Lawrence	1906–1908	Democratic	Trigg County		[3]
William J. Gooch	1908–1910	Democratic	Simpson County		[3]
George S. Wilson	1910–1912	Democratic	Union County		[3]
Claude B. Terrell	1912–1916	Democratic	Trimble County		[4]
Hugh C. Duffy	1916–1918	Democratic	Harrison County		[4]
Robert C. Crowe	1918–1920	Democratic	Oldham County		[4]
Joseph Bosworth	1920–1922	Republican	Bell County		[4]
James H. Thompson	1922–1924	Democratic	Bourbon County		[4]
Samuel W. Adams	1924–1926	Democratic	Kenton County		[4]
George L. Drury	1926–1928	Democratic	Union County		[4]
John S. Milliken	1928–1932	Democratic	Simpson County		[4]
John Y. Brown	1932–1933	Democratic	Fayette County		[4]
Frank Lebus	1933–1934	Democratic	Harrison County		[4]
W. E. Rogers	1934–1935	Democratic	Todd County		[4]
Wallace Brown	1935–1936	Democratic	Nelson County		[4]
John D. Kirtley	1936–1940	Democratic	McLean County		[4]
Benjamin F. Shields	1940–1942	Democratic	Shelby County		[4]
Stanley S. Dickson	1942–1944	Democratic	Bourbon County		[4]
Harry Waterfield	1944–1948	Democratic	Hickman County		[4]
Herbert Tinsley	1948–1950	Democratic	Carroll County		[4]
Adron Doran	1950–1952	Democratic	Calloway County		[4]
Charles W. Burnley	1952–1956	Democratic	McCracken County		[4]
Thomas P. Fitzpatrick	1956–1958	Democratic	Kenton County		[4]
Morris Weintraub	1958–1960	Democratic	Campbell County		[4]
Harry Lowman	1960–1964	Democratic	Boyd County		[4]
Shelby McCallum	1964–1968	Democratic	Marshall County		[4]
Julian Carroll	1968–1972	Democratic	McCracken County		[4]
Norbert Blume	1972–1976	Democratic	Jefferson County		[4]
William G. Kenton	1976–1982	Democratic	Fayette County		[4]
Bobby H. Richardson	1982–1986	Democratic	Barren County		[4]
Donald Blandford	1986–1993	Democratic	Daviess County		[4]
Joe Clarke	1993–1994	Democratic	Boyle County		[5]
Jody Richards	1994–2008	Democratic	Warren County		[5]
Greg Stumbo	2009–2017	Democratic	Floyd County
Jeff Hoover	2017–2018	Republican	Russell County
David Osborne	2017–	Republican	Oldham County

See also

• List of Kentucky General Assemblies

References

1. Wilson, C.Y. (1891). Legislative Document No. 20., Ninth Biennial Report from the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics (Report). Frankfort, Kentucky: E. Polk Johnson, Capitol Office. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
2. Tapp, Hambleton; Klotter, James C. (1977). Kentucky: Decades of Discord 1865 – 1900. Frankfort, Kentucky: The Kentucky Historical Society. ISBN 0-916968-05-7.
3. Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (2005). Kentucky General Assembly Membership 1900-2005 (PDF). Vol. 1. Frankfort, Kentucky. Retrieved December 16, 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. Sharp, James Roger; Sharp, Nancy Weatherly (1999). American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313302138. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
5. Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (2005). Kentucky General Assembly Membership 1900-2005 (PDF). Vol. 2. Frankfort, Kentucky. Retrieved December 16, 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)