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Speakership
Home State
Clue
Speaker
1789-1791, 1793-1795
Pennsylvania
First Speaker
Frederick Muhlenberg
1811-1814, 1815-1820, 1823-1825
Kentucky
Unsuccesfully ran for president 3 times; member of the "Great Triumvirate"
Henry Clay
1834-1835
Tennessee
Ran for president on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860
John Bell
1835-1839
Tennessee
Only Speaker to be elected president
James K. Polk
1863-1869
Indiana
Grant's first Vice President; involved in the Crédit Mobilier scandal
Schuyler Colfax
1869-1875
Maine
Leader of the Half-Breeds who lost the 1884 election to Cleveland, when he was called the "continental liar from the state of Maine"
James G. Blaine
1931-1933
Texas
Franklin D. Roosevelt's 2-term Vice President
John Nance Garner
1940-1947, 1949-1953,1955-1961
Texas
Longest-serving Speaker; mentor to LBJ who helped pass some Civil Rights legislation
Sam Rayburn
1977-1987
Massachusetts
Reagan said he and this man were friends "after 6 pm"
Tip O'Neill
1989-1995
Washington
Passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Brady Bill, and NAFTA implementation; only Speaker to be defeated in a re-election campaign
Tom Foley
1995-1999
Georgia
First Republican Speaker in 40 years; architect of the "Contract With America"; undermined political decorum
Newt Gingrich
1999-2007
Illinois
Imprisoned for molesting children as a high school wrestling coach
Dennis Hastert
2007-2011, 2019-present
California
Current Speaker and first female Speaker; passed Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank; impeached Trump
Nancy Pelosi
2011-2015
Ohio
Contributed to the 2013 government shutdown due to opposition to funding the Affordable Care Act; resigned due to conservative opposition
John Boehner
2015-2019
Wisconsin
Mitt Romney's running mate; passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act