List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives

This is a list of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives. The speaker is the presiding officer of the Alaska House of Representatives. This list covers both the territorial House (convened mostly biennially between 1913 and 1957) and the state House (convened annually since 1959).

Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives
Alaskan state seal
Incumbent Cathy Tilton since January 18, 2023
Formation	1913
First holder	Earnest B. Collins

Mike Chenault is the longest-serving speaker, holding the office for four terms from 2009 to 2017. He is shown seated at the speaker's chair at the start of the 29th Legislature in January 2015. A large wood carving depicting the state seal hangs on the wall behind him.

The front entrance to the Speaker's chambers in the Alaska State Capitol.

Speakers

Territorial House

No.	Name	Image	Party	Hometown	Division	Term	Legislatures
1	Earnest B. Collins		Republican	Fox	4th	1913 – 1917	First, Second
2	Luther C. Hess		Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1917 – 1919	Third
3	E. J. White		Democratic	Juneau	1st	1919 – 1921	Fourth
4	Andrew Nerland		Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1921 – 1923	Fifth
5	Cash Cole		Republican	Juneau	1st	1923 – 1925	Sixth
6	C. H. Wilcox		Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1925 – 1927	Seventh
7	Sumner S. Smith		Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1927 – 1929	Eighth
8	R. C. Rothenburg		Independent Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1929 – 1931	Ninth
9	Grover C. Winn		Republican	Juneau	1st	1931 – 1933	Tenth
10	Joe McDonald		Democratic	Ester Creek	4th	1933 – 1935	Eleventh
11	Joseph S. Hofman		Democratic	Seward	3rd	1935 – 1937	Twelfth
12	Joe Green		Democratic	Hyder	1st	1937 – 1939	Thirteenth
13	Howard Lyng		Democratic	Nome	2nd	1939 – 1941	Fourteenth
14	Herbert H. McCutcheon		Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1941 – 1943	Fifteenth
15	James V. Davis		Democratic	Juneau	1st	1943 – 1945	Sixteenth
16	Jesse D. Lander		Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1945 – 1947	Seventeenth
17	Oscar S. Gill		Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1947 – 1949	Eighteenth
18	Stanley McCutcheon		Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1949 – 1951	Nineteenth
19	William A. Egan		Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1951 – 1953	Twentieth
20	George Miscovich		Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1953 – 1955	Twenty-First
21	Wendell P. Kay		Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1955 – 1957	Twenty-Second
22	Richard J. Greuel		Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1957 – 1959	Twenty-Third

State House

No.	Name	Image	Party	Hometown	District	Term	Legislatures
1	Warren A. Taylor		Democratic	Fairbanks	19	1959 – 1963	First, Second
2	Bruce Kendall		Republican	Anchorage	8	1963 – 1965	Third
3	Mike Gravel		Democratic	Anchorage	8	1965 – 1967	Fourth
4	William K. Boardman		Republican	Ketchikan	1	1967 – 1969	Fifth
5	Jalmar M. Kerttula		Democratic	Palmer	7	1969 – 1971	Sixth
6	Gene Guess		Democratic	Anchorage	8	1971 – 1973	Seventh
7	Tom Fink		Republican	Anchorage	8	1973 – 1975	Eighth
8	Mike Bradner		Democratic	Fairbanks	20	1975 – 1977	Ninth
9	Hugh Malone		Democratic	Kenai	13	1977 – 1979	Tenth
10	Terry Gardiner		Democratic	Ketchikan	1	1979 – 1981	Eleventh
11	Jim Duncan		Democratic	Juneau	4	1981 – 1981	Twelfth
12	Joseph L. Hayes		Republican (Tri-Partisan Coalition)	Anchorage	12, 9	1981 – 1985	Twelfth, Thirteenth
13	Ben F. Grussendorf		Democratic	Sitka	3	1985 – 1989	Fourteenth, Fifteenth
14	Samuel R. Cotten		Democratic	Eagle River	15	1989 – 1991	Sixteenth
15	Ben F. Grussendorf		Democratic	Sitka	3	1991 – 1993	Seventeenth
16	Ramona L. Barnes		Republican (Republican majority coalition)	Anchorage	22	1993 – 1995	Eighteenth
17	Gail Phillips		Republican	Homer	7	1995 – 1999	Nineteenth, Twentieth
18	Brian Porter		Republican	Anchorage	20	1999 – 2003	Twenty-First, Twenty-Second
19	Pete Kott		Republican	Eagle River	17	2003 – 2005	Twenty-Third
20	John Harris		Republican	Valdez	12	2005 – 2009	Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth
21	Mike Chenault		Republican	Nikiski	34	2009 – 2017	Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth
22	Bryce Edgmon		Democratic	Dillingham	37	2017 – 2021	Thirtieth, Thirty-first
			Independent (Democratic majority coalition)
23	Louise Stutes		Republican (Democratic majority coalition)	Kodiak	32	2021 – 2023	Thirty-second
23	Cathy Tilton		Republican (Republican majority coalition)	Wasilla	26	2023 – present	Thirty-third

See also

• List of Alaska state legislatures

External links

• Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members 1913–2013 (PDF) (Centennial ed.). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2013. — contains photos of most speakers