YEARS	NAME	RESIDENCE	PARTY	AGE WHEN ELECTED
1820-1823	Benjamin Ames	Bath	Democratic-Republican	41
1824	Benjamin Greene	South Berwick	National Republican	60
1825-1828	John Ruggles	Thomaston	Democratic- Republican1	36
1829	George Evans	Gardiner	National Republican	31
1830	Daniel Goodenow	York	National Republican	36
1831	John Ruggles (Resigned)	Thomaston	Democratic-Republican1	see 1825
1832	Benjamin White	Monmouth	D	40
1833-1834	Nathan Clifford	Newfield	D	29
1835	Thomas Davee (Resigned 2/26/1835)	Blanchard	D	37
1835-1836	Jonathan Cilley	Thomaston	D2	32
1837	Hannibal Hamlin	Hampden	D	27
1838	Elisha H. Allen	Bangor	Whig	33
1839-1840	Hannibal Hamlin	Hampden	D	see 1837
1841	Josiah S. Little	Portland	Whig3	39
1842	Charles Andrews	Turner	D	27
1843-1844	David Dunn	Poland	D	31
1845	Moses McDonald	Limerick	D	30
1846	Ebenezer Knowlton	Montville	D4	30
1847-1848	Hugh D. McLellan	Gorham	D	41
1849-1850	Samuel Belcher	Farmington	D	34
1851-1852	George P. Sewall	Old Town	D	40
1853	John C. Talbot, Jr.	Lubec	D	36
1854	Noah Smith, Jr.	Calais	Whig	54
1855	Sidney Perham	Woodstock	R	35
1856	Josiah S. Little	Portland	D3	see 1841
1857	Charles A. Spofford	Deer Isle	D	34
1858	Josiah H. Drummond	Waterville	R	30
1859	William T. Johnson	Augusta	R	43
1860	Frederick A. Pike	Calais	R	42
1861-1862	James G. Blaine	Augusta	R	31
1863-1864	Nelson Dingley, Jr.	Auburn	R	30
1865	W. A. P. Dillingham	Waterville	R	40
1866	James M. Stone	Kennebunk	R	39
1867	Lewis Barker	Stetson	R	48
1868	Theodore C. Woodman	Bucksport	R	52
1869	Josiah Drummond	Waterville	R	see 1858
1870	Reuben Foster	Waterville	R	36
1871	Edwin B. Smith	Saco	R	38
1872	Frederick Robie	Gorham	R	49
1873	Edmund F. Webb	Waterville	R	37
1874-1875	William W. Thomas, Jr.	Portland	R	34
1876	Frederick Robie	Gorham	R	see 1872
1877	Edward B. Nealley	Bangor	R	39
1878	Henry Lord	Bangor	R	30
1879	Melvin P. Frank	Portland	D	37
1880	George E. Weeks	Augusta	R	41
1881-82	Liberty A. Hutchinson	Lewiston	R	36
1883-84	J. Manchester Haynes	Augusta	R	43
1885-86	Charles Hamlin	Bangor	R	47
1887-88	Charles E. Littlefield	Rockland	R	35
1889-90	Frederick N. Dow	Portland	R	48
1891-92	Andrew P. Wiswell	Ellsworth	R	38
1893-94	Albert R. Savage	Auburn	R	45
1895-96	Llewellyn Powers	Houlton	R	58
1897-98	Seth L. Larrabee	Portland	R	41
1899-1900	Isaiah K. Stetson	Bangor	R	40
1901-02	Joseph H. Manley	Augusta	R	58
1903-04	Oscar F. Fellows	Bucksport	R	45
1905-06	Morrill N. Drew	Portland	R	42
1907-08	Donald A. H. Powers	Houlton	R	56
1909-10	George G. Weeks	Fairfield	R	48
1911-12	Frank A. Morey	Lewiston	D	47
1913-14	John A. Peters	Ellsworth	R	48
1915-16	Herbert W. Trafton	Ft. Fairfield	D	50
1917-18	William L. Bonney	Bowdoinham	R	50
1919-20	Frank G. Farrington	Augusta	R	46
1921-22	Charles P. Barnes	Houlton	R	51
1923-24	Frank H. Holley	Anson	R	42
1925-26	William Tudor Gardiner	Gardiner	R	32
1927-28	Burleigh Martin	Augusta	R	38
1929-30	Robert Hale	Portland	R	39
1931-32	E. D. Merrill	Dover-Foxcroft	R	65
1933-34	Franz U. Burkett	Portland	R	45
1935-36	Nathaniel Tompkins	Houlton	R	55
1937-38	George E. Hill	South Portland	R	33
1939-40	D. W. Philbrick	Cape Elizabeth	R	42
1941-42	George D. Varney	Berwick	R	37
1943-44	F. Ardine Richardson	Strong	R	47
1945-46	George B. Barnes	Houlton	R	40
1947-48	John F. Ward	Millinocket	R	42
1949-50	Nathaniel M. Haskell	Portland	R	36
1951-52	William S. Silsby	Aurora	R	48
1953-54	Roswell P. Bates	Orono	R	41
1955-56	Willis A. Trafton, Jr.	Auburn	R	36
1957-60	Joseph T. Edgar	Bar Harbor	R	46
1961-62	Vinal G. Good	Sebago	R	54
1963-64	David J. Kennedy	Milbridge	R	55
1965-66	Dana Childs	Portland	D	42
1967-72	David J. Kennedy	Milbridge	R	see 1963
1973-74	Richard D. Hewes	Cape Elizabeth	R	46
1975-94	John L. Martin (Resigned as Speaker 2-3-1994)	Eagle Lake	D	33
1994-96	Dan A. Gwadosky (Elected Speaker 2-3-1994)	Fairfield	D	39
1997-1998	Elizabeth H. Mitchell	Vassalboro	D	56
1999-2000	G. Steven Rowe	Portland	D	45
2001-2002	Michael V. Saxl	Portland	D	33
2003-2004	Patrick Colwell	Gardiner	D	51
2005-2006	John Richardson	Brunswick	D	48
2007-2008	Glenn Cummings	Portland	D	45
2009-2010	Hannah M. Pingree	North Haven	D	32
2011-2012	Robert Nutting	Oakland	R	63
2013-2016	Mark Eves	North Berwick	D	35
2017-2020	Sara Gideon	Freeport	D	44
2021-2022	Ryan M. Fecteau	Biddeford	D	28
2023-	Rachel Talbot Ross	Portland	D	62

 

¹So listed in Mundy. Who Was Who in America states Mr. Ruggles was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat; the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress indicates he was elected as a Jacksonian.

²So listed in Mundy and the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Shown on original Library list as Jackson Democrat.

³Mundy indicates that Mr. Little became a Democrat in the 1850’s on the breakup of the Whig party.

⁴So listed in Mundy, who also indicates that Mr. Knowlton was converted to Republicanism by the slavery question. The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress states that he was elected to Congress as a Republican

Sources:
House and Senate Register
Mundy, James H. Speakers of the Maine House of Representatives from 1820. Augusta: Clerk of the House, c1981.

 

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