Speaker
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Party
|
Start of service
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End of service
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Noble Wimberly Jones
|
Whig
|
1777
|
May 2, 1778
|
James Whitefield[1]
|
Whig
|
May 2, 1778
|
October 30, 1778
|
Noble Wimberly Jones
|
Whig
|
October 30, 1778
|
November 15, 1778
|
**no quorum**
|
|
1779
|
1779
|
William Glascock
|
Whig
|
1780
|
1780
|
Nathan Brownson
|
|
1781
|
1781
|
William Gibbons, Sr.
|
|
1782
|
1782
|
Samuel Saltus[2]
|
|
1782
|
1782
|
Joseph Clay
|
Federalist
|
1782 1st Adjournment
|
1782 1st Adjournment
|
Joseph Habersham[3]
|
Independent
|
1782 2nd Adjournment
|
1782 3rd Adjournment
|
John Houstoun
|
Whig
|
1783
|
1783
-
retired after "several days"
|
Noble Wimberly Jones
|
Whig
|
1783
|
1783 1st Session
|
William Gibbons, Sr.
|
|
1783 2nd Session
|
1783 2nd Session
|
James Habersham, Jr.[3]
|
|
1784
|
1784
|
Joseph Habersham[3]
|
Independent
|
1785
|
1785
|
William Gibbons, Sr.
|
|
1786
|
1787
|
Nathan Brownson
|
|
1788
|
1788 2nd Session
|
John Powell[4]
|
|
1789
|
1789
|
Seaborn Jones[5]
|
|
1789
|
1790
|
William Gibbons
|
|
1791
|
1793
|
Thomas Napier[6]
|
|
1794
|
1795
|
Thomas Stevens[7]
|
|
1796
|
1796
|
David Meriwether
|
Democratic-Republican
|
1797
|
1801
|
Abraham Jackson[8]
|
|
1802
|
1805
|
Benjamin Whitaker[9]
|
|
1806
|
1810
|
Robert Iverson[9]
|
|
1811
|
1811
|
Benjamin Whitaker[9]
|
|
1812
|
1818
|
David Adams|[10]
|
|
1819
|
1820
|
David Witt[11]
|
|
1821
|
1821
|
David Adams[10]
|
|
1821
|
1821
|
Allen Daniel Jr.[12]
|
|
1822
|
1822
|
David Adams[10]
|
|
1823
|
1823
|
John Abercrombie[13]
|
|
1824
|
1825
|
Thomas W. Murray
|
Democratic-Republican
|
1825
|
1825
|
Irby Hudson[14]
|
|
1826
|
1828
|
Warren Jourdan[15]
|
|
1829
|
1829
|
Asbury Hull
|
Democratic
|
1830
|
1832
|
Thomas Glascock
|
|
1833
|
1834
|
Joseph Day
|
Democratic
|
1836
|
1839
|
Charles J. Jenkins
|
Democrat
|
1840
|
1840
|
William B. Wofford
|
|
1841
|
1842
|
Charles J. Jenkins
|
Whig
|
1843
|
1848
|
John W. Anderson
|
Democrat
|
1849
|
1850
|
James Archibald Meriwether
|
Democrat
|
1851
|
1852
|
John Elliott Ward
|
Democrat
|
1853
|
1854
|
William Henry Stiles
|
Democrat
|
1855
|
1856
|
John H.W. Underwood
|
Democrat
|
1857
|
1858
|
Isaiah Tucker Irvin
|
Democrat
|
1859
|
1859
|
Charles J. Williams
|
Democrat
|
1860
|
1860
|
Warren Akin Sr.
|
Democrat
|
1861
|
1863 Extraordinary Session
|
Thomas Hardeman, Jr.
|
Democrat
|
1863
|
1866 Extraordinary Session
|
Robert McWhorter
|
Republican
|
1868
|
1870 Extraordinary Session
|
James Milton Smith
|
Democrat
|
1871
|
1871
|
Joseph B. Cumming
|
Democrat
|
1872
|
1873 Late Adjournment
|
Augustus Octavius Bacon
|
Democrat
|
1873
|
1874
|
Thomas Hardeman, Jr.
|
Democrat
|
1875
|
1876
|
Augustus Octavius Bacon
|
Democrat
|
1877
|
1881 Late Adjournment
|
Louis F. Garrard
|
Democrat
|
1882
|
1883 Extraordinary Session
|
William A. Little[16][17][18]
|
Democrat
|
1884
|
1887 Late Adjournment
|
Alexander S. Clay
|
Democratic
|
1888
|
1889 Late Adjournment
|
Clark Howell
|
Democratic
|
1890
|
1891 Late Adjournment
|
William Yates Atkinson
|
Democratic
|
1892
|
1893
|
William H. Fleming
|
Democratic
|
1894
|
1895
|
Hudson A. Jenkins
|
Democrat
|
1896
|
1897 Late Adjournment
|
John D. Little[17][18]
|
Democrat
|
1898
|
1901
|
Newton Morris
|
Democratic
|
1902
|
1904
|
John M. Slaton
|
Democratic
|
1905
|
1908 Extraordinary Seession
|
John N. Holder
|
Democratic
|
1909
|
1912 Extraordinary Session
|
William H. Burwell
|
Democratic
|
1913
|
1917 Extraordinary Session
|
John N. Holder
|
Democratic
|
1917
|
1920
|
William Cecil Neill
|
Democrat
|
1921
|
1926 2nd Extraordinary Session
|
Richard Russell Jr.
|
Democratic
|
1927
|
1931 Extraordinary Session
|
Arlie Daniel Tucker[19]
|
Democratic
|
1931
|
1932
|
Eurith Dickerson Rivers
|
Democratic
|
1933
|
1936
|
Roy V. Harris
|
Democratic
|
1937
|
1940 Extraordinary Session
|
Randall Evans, Jr.
|
Democratic
|
1941 Extraordinary Session
|
1942
|
Roy V. Harris
|
Democratic
|
1943
|
1946 Extraordinary Session
|
Frederick Barrow Hand[20]
|
Democratic
|
1947
|
1954
|
Marvin E. Moate[21]
|
Democratic
|
1955
|
1958
|
George L. Smith
|
Democratic
|
1959
|
1962 Extraordinary Session
|
George T. Smith
|
Democratic
|
1963
|
1966
|
George L. Smith
|
Democratic
|
1967
|
1972
|
Thomas B. Murphy
|
Democratic
|
1973
|
2002
|
Terry Coleman
|
Democratic
|
2003
|
2005
|
Glenn Richardson[22]
|
Republican
|
2005
|
2010 (January 1)
|
Mark Burkhalter[22]
|
Republican
|
2010 Interim Speaker
|
2010
|
David Ralston[22]
|
Republican
|
2010 (January 11)
|
2022
|
Jan Jones
|
Republican
|
2022 (November 16)
|
2023
|
Jon G. Burns
|
Republican
|
2023 (January 9)
|
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