House - Past Speakers
Past Speakers and Clerks of the Alabama House of Representatives
Abbreviations Used:
| (T) | Territorial Assembly |
| (D) | Democrat |
| (R) | Republican |
| (W) | Whig |
| (S) | Special Session during which a new speaker or clerk was elected |
| * | Speaker pro-tem was elected due to illness of sitting speaker |
| + | Speaker or clerk died in office |
| # | Speaker resigned to pursue other elective office |
| (r) | Clerk resigned |
| YEAR | SPEAKER | CLERK |
| 1818 (T) | Gabriel Moore (D-Madison) | Isaac R. Nicholson (r) Daniel Coleman Francis S. Gaines (Clerk Pro-Tem) Daniel Coleman |
| 1818 (T) | John W. Walker (D-Madison) | John C. Goolrick |
| 1819 | James Dellett (W-Monroe) | Jonas J. Bell |
| 1820-21 | George W. Owen (D-Monroe) | James J. Pleasants |
| 1821 (S) | George W. Owen | Nathaniel R. Dodson |
| 1821 | James Dellett | Nathaniel R. Dodson |
| 1822-23 | Arthur P. Bagby (W-Monroe) | Nathaniel R. Dodson |
| 1823 | William I. Adair (D-Madison) Samuel W. Oliver (D-Conecuh)# | Nathaniel R. Dodson |
| 1824 | Samuel Walker (D-Madison) | Nathaniel R. Dodson |
| 1825-26 | William Kelly (D-Madison) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1826-28 | Samuel W. Oliver (D-Conecuh) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1828-29 | Clement C. Clay (D-Madison) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1829-30 | John Gayle (D-Greene) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1830-32 | James Penn (D-Madison) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1832-35 | Samuel W. Oliver | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1835-36 | James W. McClung (D-Madison) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1836 | Arthur P. Bagby (D-Monroe) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1837 (S) | Arthur P. Bagby | Gideon B. Frierson |
| 1837 | James W. McClung | Gideon B. Frierson |
| 1838-39 | James W. McClung | William Garrett |
| 1839-40 | John D. Phelan (D-Tuscaloosa) | William Garrett |
| 1840-41 | Samuel Walker Robert A. Baker (D-Franklin)* | William Garrett Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1841 (S) | Robert A. Baker | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1841 | David Moore (D-Madison) | Thomas B. Tunstall |
| 1842-43 | John Erwin (D-Greene) | Joseph Phelan |
| 1843-46 | Andrew B. Moore (D-Perry) | Joseph Phelan |
| 1847-50 | LeRoy Pope Walker (D-Lauderdale) | Alexander B. Clitherall |
| 1851-52 | John D. Rather (D-Morgan) | Alexander B. Clitherall |
| 1853-54 | William Garrett (D-Coosa) | Malcolm D. Graham |
| 1855-56 | Richard W. Walker (D-Lauderdale) | Albert Stanhope Elmore |
| 1857-58 | Crawford M. Jackson (D-Autauga) | Albert Stanhope Elmore |
| 1859-60 | Alexander B. Meek (D-Mobile) | Albert Stanhope Elmore |
| 1861-62 | Walter H. Crenshaw (D-Butler) | Alexander B. Clitherall |
| 1863-65 | Walter H. Crenshaw | Albert Stanhope Elmore |
| 1865-66 | Thomas B. Cooper (D-Cherokee) | William H. Fowler |
| 1866-67 | Thomas B. Cooper | Turner Clanton |
| 1868 (S) | B. B. McCraw (R-Chambers) | William B. Cloud |
| 1868 (S) | George F. Harrington (R-Mobile) | William B. Cloud |
| 1868-70 | George F. Harrington | William B. Cloud |
| 1870-72 | John P. Hubbard (D-Pike) | Ellis Phelan |
| 1872-73 | Lewis M. Stone (D-Pickens) Lewis E. Parsons (R-Coosa) | Ellis Phelan Robert Barber |
| 1873 | Lewis E. Parsons | Robert Barber |
| 1874-76 | Decatur C. Anderson (D-Mobile) | Ellis Phelan |
| 1876-77 | Newton Clements (D-Tuscaloosa) | Ellis Phelan |
| 1878-79 | David Clopton (D-Montgomery) | Ellis Phelan |
| 1880-81 | Nathaniel H. R. Dawson (D-Dallas) | Ellis Phelan |
| 1882-83 | Wilbur F. Foster (D-Macon) | David W. McIver |
| 1884-85 | Henry Clay Armstrong (D-Lee) | David W. McIver |
| 1886-87 | Thomas G. Jones (D-Montgomery) | Elmore Garrett |
| 1888-89 | Clement Clay Shorter (D-Barbour) | Benjamin F. Elmore |
| 1890-91 | Newton Clements | Benjamin F. Elmore |
| 1892-93 | Francis L. Pettus (D-Dallas) | Massey Wilson |
| 1894-95 | Thomas H. Clark (D-Montgomery) | Massey Wilson |
| 1896-97 | Newton Clements | Massey Wilson |
| 1898-99 | Charles E. Waller (D-Hale) | Massey Wilson |
| 1900-01 | Francis L. Pettus+ Alfred M. Tunstall (Pro-Tem)* | Jesse C. Adams |
| 1903 | Alfred M. Tunstall (D-Hale) | Frank N. Julian |
| 1907 | William L. Martin (D-Montgomery)+ Archibald Hill Carmichael | Cyrus B. Brown |
| 1907 (S) | Archibald Hill Carmichael (D-Colbert) | Cyrus B. Brown |
| 1909 (S) | Archibald Hill Carmichael | Cyrus B. Brown |
| 1911 | Edward B. Almon (D-Colbert) | William F. Herbert |
| 1915 | Archibald Hill Carmichael | William F. Herbert |
| 1919 | Henry P. Merritt (D-Macon) | Fred H. Gormley |
| 1920 (S) | Seybourn A. Lynne (D-Morgan) | Fred H. Gormley |
| 1921 (S) | Seybourn A. Lynne | Fred H. Gormley |
| 1923-27 | Hugh D. Merrill (D-Calhoun) | John H. Stewart |
| 1927 | J. Lee Long (D-Butler) | John H. Stewart |
| 1931-35 | Alfred M. Tunstall | John H. Stewart |
| 1935-36 | Robert H. Walker (D-Limestone) | Edward F. Taylor |
| 1936-37 (S) | Robert H. Walker Maurice L. Robertson (Pro-Tem)* | Edward F. Taylor |
| 1939 | Hugh D. Merrill | Robert Tyler Goodwyn |
| 1942-43 | George O. Miller (D-Sumpter)+ | Robert Tyler Goodwyn |
| 1945 | Charles D. Norman (D-Bullock) | Robert Tyler Goodwyn |
| 1947-49 | William M. Beck (D-DeKalb) | Robert Tyler Goodwyn |
| 1951-53 | Roberts H. Brown (D-Lee) | Robert Tyler Goodwyn |
| 1955-56 | Rankin Fite (D-Marion) | Robert Tyler Goodwyn+ |
| 1957 | Rankin Fite | Oakley Melton, Jr. |
| 1959 | Charles Adams (D-Tallapoosa) | Oakley Melton, Jr. |
| 1961 | Virgis M. Ashworth (D-Bibb) | Oakley Melton, Jr. |
| 1963-67 | Albert P. Brewer (D-Morgan) | John W. Pemberton |
| 1967-71 | Rankin Fite | John W. Pemberton |
| 1971-75 | G. Sage Lyons (D-Mobile) | John W. Pemberton |
| 1975-83 | Joseph C. McCorquodale (D-Clarke) | John W. Pemberton |
| 1983-87 | Tom Drake (D-Cullman) | John W. Pemberton |
| 1987-91 | James S. Clark (D-Barbour) | John W. Pemberton |
| 1991-99 | James S. Clark | William G. Pappas |
| 1999-2010 | Seth Hammett (D-Covington) | William G. Pappas |
| 2010 (S) | Mike Hubbard (R-Lee) | William G. Pappas |
| 2011-2012 | Mike Hubbard (R-Lee) | William G. Pappas |
| 2012-2016 | Mike Hubbard (R-Lee) | Jeff Woodard |
| 2016-2023 | Mac McCutcheon (R-Madison) | Jeff Woodard |
| 2023-present | Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-DeKalb) | John Treadwell |