List of Speakers of the West Virginia House of Delegates

Below is a complete list of Speakers of the West Virginia House of Delegates since 1863:

Name	Party	Term	Residence
Spicer Patrick	Republican	1863–1864	Kanawha Co.
Lee Roy Kramer	Republican	1864–1866	Monongalia Co.
David S. Pinnell	Republican	1866–1868	Upshur Co.
Henry C. McWhorter	Republican	1868–1869	Kanawha Co.
Solomon S. Fleming	Republican	1869–1870	Harrison Co.
William M. Welch	Republican	1870–1871	Mineral Co.
Elbridge G. Cracraft	Democratic	1871–1872	Ohio Co.
Albert E. Summers	Democratic	1872–1872	Kanawha Co.
William M. Miller	Democratic	1872–1875	Ohio Co.
Alexander W. Monroe	Democratic	1875–1877	Hampshire Co.
Eustace Gibson	Democratic	1877–1879	Cabell Co.
George H. Moffett	Democratic	1879–1881	Pocahontas Co.
Emanuel Willis Wilson	Democratic	1881–1883	Kanawha Co.
Joseph J. Woods	Democratic	1883–1885, 1889–1891	Ohio Co.
Thomas H. Dennis	Democratic	1885–1887	Greenbrier Co.
John M. Rowan	Democratic	1887–1889	Monroe Co.
Louis Bennett	Democratic	1891–1893	Lewis Co.
David W. Shaw	Democratic	1893–1895	Barbour Co.
William Seymour Edwards	Republican	1895–1897	Kanawha Co.
Samuel R. Hanen	Republican	1897–1899	Marshall Co.
Owen S. McKinney	Democratic	1899–1901	Marion Co.
William G. Wilson	Republican	1901–1903	Randolph Co.
Frank Moats	Republican	1903–1905	Wood Co.
Fred Paul Grosscup	Republican	1905–1907	Kanawha Co.
James A. Seaman	Republican	1907–1909	Jackson Co.
J.H. Strickling	Republican	1909–1911	Tyler Co.
C.M. Wetzel	Democratic	1911–1913	Jefferson Co.
William Taylor George	Republican	1913–1915	Barbour Co.
Vernon E. Johnson	Republican	1915–1917, 1927–1929	Morgan Co.
Joseph S. Thurmond	Democratic	1917–1919	Greenbrier Co.
J. Luther Wolfe	Republican	1919–1921	Jackson Co.
Edwin M. Keatley	Republican	1921–1923, 1925–1927	Kanawha Co.
W.E.R. Byrne	Democratic	1923–1925	Kanawha Co.
John William Cummins	Republican	1929–1931	Ohio Co.
J. Alfred Taylor	Democratic	1931–1933	Fayette Co.
Ralph M. Hiner	Democratic	1933–1935	Pendleton Co.
John J. Pelter	Democratic	1935–1937	Logan Co.
James Kay Thomas	Democratic	1937–1941	Kanawha Co.
Malcolm R. Arnold	Democratic	1941–1943	Boone Co.
John E. Amos	Democratic	1943–1949	Kanawha Co.
William E. Flannery	Democratic	1949–1958	Logan Co.
Harry R. Pauley	Democratic	1958–1961	McDowell Co.
Julius W. Singleton, Jr.	Democratic	1961–1965	Monongalia Co.
H. Laban White	Democratic	1965–1969	Harrison Co.
Ivor F. Boiarsky	Democratic	1969–1971	Kanawha Co.
Lewis N. McManus	Democratic	1971–1977	Raleigh Co.
Donald L. Kopp	Democratic	1977–1979	Harrison Co.
Clyde M. See, Jr.	Democratic	1979–1985	Hardy Co.
Joseph Albright	Democratic	1985–1987	Wood Co.
Robert E. "Chuck" Chambers	Democratic	1987–1997	Cabell Co.
Robert S. Kiss	Democratic	1997–2007	Raleigh Co.
Richard Thompson	Democratic	2007–2013	Wayne Co.
Tim Miley	Democratic	2013-2015	Harrison Co.
Tim Armstead	Republican	2015-2018	Kanawha Co.
Roger Hanshaw	Republican	2018-present	Clay Co.

See also

• West Virginia House of Delegates
• List of members of the 79th West Virginia House of Delegates