List of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia
The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia is the presiding officer of the legislature. In the current house, the speaker is elected by the house for the term of the legislature, six years.[1] The Speaker may be removed from their position by a two-thirds majority. A Deputy Speaker is also elected, and, in the event of a vacancy in the speakership, serves as Speaker until the election of a replacement, which is to occur within sixty days. The Speaker is also responsible for appointing members to House Committees. This article lists the presiding officers of Liberia's lower house, which has been most often known as the House of Representatives.
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This is an incomplete list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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James B. McGill | 1848 | 1848 | [2][3] |
Daniel Bashiel Warner | 1848 | 1849 | [2] |
Edward James Roye | 1849 | 1850 | [2] |
Charles Henry | 1850 | 1851 | [2] |
Beverly R. Wilson | 1851 | 1853 | [2] |
Beverly V. R. James | 1853 | ? | [2] |
H. W. Erskine | ? | 1855 | [4] |
James M. Moore | 1855 | 1856 | [2][5] |
Mathew A. Rand | 1856 | 1857 - ? | [2][6] |
Robert H. Marshall | 1859 | 1860 | [2] |
Anthony William Gardner | 1860 | 1861 | [2] |
Ezra W. Wright | December 1861 | ? | [2] |
Henry Wesley Dennis | 1863 | 1864 - ? | [2][7] |
Augustus Washington | 1865 | 1869 | [2] |
William Spencer Anderson | 1869 | 1871 | [2] |
D. F. Wilson | 1871 | 1873 - ? | [2][8] |
Nathan E. Dixon | 1876 | 1877 | [2] |
William David Coleman | 1877 | 1879 | [9][2] |
C. R. Sim | ?-1880 | 1881-? | [10] |
J.-N. Lewis | ?-1885 | 1887-? | [11][12] |
F. O. Thorne | ?-1890 | 1892-? | [13] |
Z. J. Greene | ?-1894 | 1894-? | [14] |
A. J. Woods | ? | ? | [2] |
Dixon B. Brown | ? | ? | [2] |
William Draper | ? | ? | [2] |
Edward Lyles | ? | ? | [2] |
Henry B. Whitfield | ? | ? | [2] |
Daniel E. MacFarland | ? | ? | [2] |
Alexander Glen Tubman | ? | ? | [2] |
Robert B. Richardson | 1895 | 1896 - ? | [15] |
J. C. Johnson | 1897 | 1898 | [2] |
Robert H. Marshall | ? | 1900 | [16] |
D. R. Worrell | 1900 | 1901 | [2] |
James A. Toliver | ? - 1903 | 1906 - ? | |
Samuel Alfred Ross | 1907 | ? | [2] |
J. J. Ellis | ? - 1910 | 1910 - ? | [2] |
T. A. McCarthy | ? - 1912 | 1912 - ? | [17] |
John Gottlieb A. Richards | 1918 | 1919 | [2] |
Philip J. L. Brumskine | 1919 | 1923 | [2] |
Stephen Allen Liberty | ?-1925 | 1929 | [2] |
John N. Lewis | 1929 | 1931 | [2] |
Clarence Lorenzo Simpson | 1931 | 1934 | [2] |
Richard Wiles | 1935 | 1936 | [2] |
Richard Wiles | 1940 | 1940 | [2] |
Richard Wiles | 1942 | 1945 | [2] |
Benjamin Green Freeman | 1943 | 1951 | [2] |
Richard Abrom Henries, Sr. | 1952 | 12 April 1980 | [18][19][2] |
This is a list of speakers of the Interim National Assembly:
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Nicholas Podier | 1984 | 1984 |
This is a list of presidents of the Interim National Assembly:
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Samuel Doe | 26 July 1984 | 1985 | [20] |
This is a list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:
Name | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Samuel Dualu Hill | 1986 | 1990 | [21][2] |
This is a list of speakers of the Interim National Assembly (ILA):
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Notes |
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Bismarck Kuyon | ? - 1992 | 1993 | [22] |
This is a list of speakers of the Transitional National Assembly (TLA):
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Notes |
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Morris Dukuly | 11 March 1994 | February 1997 | [23] |
Lusinee Kamara | 27 February 1997 | 1997 |
This is a list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Notes |
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Nyudueh Morkonmana | 1997 | 2003 | [2][24] |
This is a list of speakers of the National Transitional Legislative Assembly of Liberia (NTLA):
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
George Dweh | 20 October 2003 | 14 March 2005 | [25] |
George Koukou | 17 March 2005 | January 2006 | [25] |
This is a list of speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:
Name | Took Office | Left Office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Edwin Melvin Snowe | 13 January 2006 | 18 January 2007 | [26] |
? | 18 January 2007 | 29 January 2007 | |
Edwin Melvin Snowe | 29 January 2007 | 15 February 2007 | [27] |
Alex J. Tyler | 7 April 2007 | 27 September 2016 | [28][27][29] |
James Emmanuel Nuquay | October 2016 | 15 January 2018 | [27] |
Bhofal Chambers | 15 January 2018 | Incumbent | [30] |
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