List of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia

The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia is the presiding officer of the legislature. In the current house, the speaker is elected by the house for the term of the legislature, six years.^[1] The Speaker may be removed from their position by a two-thirds majority. A Deputy Speaker is also elected, and, in the event of a vacancy in the speakership, serves as Speaker until the election of a replacement, which is to occur within sixty days. The Speaker is also responsible for appointing members to House Committees. This article lists the presiding officers of Liberia's lower house, which has been most often known as the House of Representatives.

List

This is an incomplete list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
James B. McGill	1848	1848	[2][3][full citation needed]
Daniel Bashiel Warner	1848	1849	[2]
Edward James Roye	1849	1850	[2]
Charles Henry	1850	1851	[2]
Beverly R. Wilson	1851	1853	[2]
Beverly V. R. James	1853	?	[2]
H. W. Erskine	?	1855	[4]
James M. Moore	1855	1856	[2][5]
Mathew A. Rand	1856	1857 - ?	[2][6]
Robert H. Marshall	1859	1860	[2]
Anthony William Gardner	1860	1861	[2]
Ezra W. Wright	December 1861	?	[2]
Henry Wesley Dennis	1863	1864 - ?	[2][7]
Augustus Washington	1865	1869	[2]
William Spencer Anderson	1869	1871	[2]
D. F. Wilson	1871	1873 - ?	[2][8]
Nathan E. Dixon	1876	1877	[2]
William David Coleman	1877	1879	[9][2]
C. R. Sim	?-1880	1881-?	[10]
J.-N. Lewis	?-1885	1887-?	[11][12]
F. O. Thorne	?-1890	1892-?	[13]
Z. J. Greene	?-1894	1894-?	[14]
A. J. Woods	?	?	[2]
Dixon B. Brown	?	?	[2]
William Draper	?	?	[2]
Edward Lyles	?	?	[2]
Henry B. Whitfield	?	?	[2]
Daniel E. MacFarland	?	?	[2]
Alexander Glen Tubman	?	?	[2]
Robert B. Richardson	1895	1896 - ?	[15]
J. C. Johnson	1897	1898	[2]
Robert H. Marshall	?	1900	[16]
D. R. Worrell	1900	1901	[2]
James A. Toliver	? - 1903	1906 - ?
Samuel Alfred Ross	1907	?	[2]
J. J. Ellis	? - 1910	1910 - ?	[2]
T. A. McCarthy	? - 1912	1912 - ?	[17]
John Gottlieb A. Richards	1918	1919	[2]
Philip J. L. Brumskine	1919	1923	[2]
Stephen Allen Liberty	?-1925	1929	[2]
John N. Lewis	1929	1931	[2]
Clarence Lorenzo Simpson	1931	1934	[2]
Richard Wiles	1935	1936	[2]
Richard Wiles	1940	1940	[2]
Richard Wiles	1942	1945	[2]
Benjamin Green Freeman	1943	1951	[2]
Richard Abrom Henries, Sr.	1952	12 April 1980	[18][19][2]

This is a list of speakers of the Interim National Assembly:

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Nicholas Podier	1984	1984

This is a list of presidents of the Interim National Assembly:

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Samuel Doe	26 July 1984	1985	[20]

This is a list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Samuel Dualu Hill	1986	1990	[21][2]

This is a list of speakers of the Interim National Assembly (ILA):

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Notes
Bismarck Kuyon	? - 1992	1993	[22]

This is a list of speakers of the Transitional National Assembly (TLA):

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Notes
Morris Dukuly	11 March 1994	February 1997	[23]
Lusinee Kamara	27 February 1997	1997

This is a list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Notes
Nyudueh Morkonmana	1997	2003	[2][24]

This is a list of speakers of the National Transitional Legislative Assembly of Liberia (NTLA):

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Notes
George Dweh	20 October 2003	14 March 2005	[25]
George Koukou	17 March 2005	January 2006	[25]

This is a list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Notes
Edwin Melvin Snowe	13 January 2006	18 January 2007	[26]
?	18 January 2007	29 January 2007
Edwin Melvin Snowe	29 January 2007	15 February 2007	[27]
Alex J. Tyler	7 April 2007	27 September 2016	[28][27][29]
James Emmanuel Nuquay	October 2016	15 January 2018	[27]
Bhofal Chambers	15 January 2018	15 January 2024	[30]
Jonathan F. Koffa	15 January 2024	Incumbent	[31]

References

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13. "Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique" (in French). J. Perthes. 1891.
14. "Almanach de Gotha: annuaire généalogique, diplomatique et statistique 1895" (in French). J. Perthes. 1895.
15. Heard, William H. (William Henry) (August 30, 1898). "The bright side of African life". Philadelphia, A. M. E. publishing house – via Internet Archive.
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20. Europa World Year Book 1985
21. Liberia: the heart of darkness: account of Liberia's civil war
22. The professor: A documentary short by Jason Price
23. Former speaker to seek sensational seat?
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25. LIBERIA: Appeals for calm amid parliament corruption row. IRIN, March 17, 2005
26. IPU PARLINE database: LIBERIA (House of Representatives). Last elections
27. Sonpon, Leroy M.; III (11 September 2018). "Speaker Chambers Survives Ouster Attempts?". Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
28. "Welcome to Liberia Broadcasting System Online". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2009-05-21. Tyler Is New Speaker of the House. Liberia Broadcasting System, April 6, 2007
29. Johnson, Thomas T. (28 September 2016). "Speaker No Longer".
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31. "Representative Johnathan K. Koffa Secures Speaker Position with a Decisive Victory". frontpageafricaonline.com.