Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives

The Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Alabama House of Representatives, elected by House members at the Legislature’s organizational session held after each general election. The Speaker recognizes members to speak, refers bills to committees, and appoints members to House standing committees under chamber rules adopted for each four-year term.

Following Reconstruction, Democrats held the speakership continuously until 2010, when Republicans won control of the House and elected Mike Hubbard, the first Republican Speaker since Reconstruction. , the Speaker is Nathaniel Ledbetter.

List of speakers

Notes

• Contemporary House journals document key 1830s–1840s speakerships: Samuel W. Oliver (1832–33), John Dennis Phelan (1839–40), and Robert A. Baker (1841 called session).
• McClung’s repeated speakerships (1835–36; 1837–39) are also noted in archival descriptions of his papers.
• Bagby’s early and later turns as Speaker are summarized by reference works on Alabama political history.

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