Speaker_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador
The Speaker of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador is the presiding officer of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
The current Speaker of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly is Derek Bennett since April 12, 2021.[1]
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| No. | Portrait | Name Electoral district (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | General Assembly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Bingley Garland MHA for Trinity Bay (1791–1875) |
1833 | Conservative | 1st | ||
| 2 | Thomas Bennett MHA for Fogo (1788–1872) |
1834–1837 | Conservative | |||
| 3 |  |
William Carson MHA for St. John's (1770–1843) |
1838–1841 | Liberal | 2nd | |
| Constitution suspended 1841–1843 | ||||||
| 4 | James Crowdy MLC (1794–1867) |
1843–1848 | Independent | 3rd | ||
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John Kent MHA for St. John's (1805–1872) |
1848–1855 | Liberal | 4th | |
| 5th | ||||||
| 6 |  |
Ambrose Shea MHA for St. John's West (until 1859) MHA for Burin (from 1859) (1815–1905) |
1855–1861 | Liberal | 6th | |
| 7th | ||||||
| 7 |  |
Frederick Carter MHA for Trinity Bay (1815–1905) |
1861–1865 | Conservative | 8th | |
| 8 |  |
William Whiteway MHA for Twillingate and Fogo (1828–1908) |
1865–1870 | Conservative | 9th | |
| 9 | Thomas R. Bennett MHA for Fortune Bay (1830–1901) |
1870–1874 | Anti-Confederation | 10th | ||
| 10 | Prescott Emerson MHA for Burgeo-La Poile (1840–1889) |
1874–1877 | Conservative | 11th | ||
| 12th | ||||||
| 11 |  |
James Spearman Winter MHA for Burin (1845–1911) |
1877–1879 | Conservative | ||
| 12 |  |
A. J. W. McNeilly MHA for Twillingate and Fogo (1845–1911) |
1879–1883 | Conservative | 13th | |
| 13 | Robert John Kent MHA for St. John's East (1835–1893) |
1883–1885 | Coalition | 14th | ||
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Robert Bond MHA for Trinity Bay (1857–1927) |
1885–1886 | Coalition | ||
| (12) | |
A. J. W. McNeilly MHA for Bay de Verde (1845–1911) |
1886–1890 | Reform | 15th | |
| 15 | George Henry Emerson MHA for Placentia and St. Mary's (1853–1916) |
1890–1898 | Liberal | 16th | ||
| 17th | ||||||
| 16 | Henry Y. Mott MHA for Burgeo-La Poile (1855–1946) |
1898–1901 | Tory | 18th | ||
| 17 |  |
Lawrence O' Brien Furlong MHA for St. John's East (1856–1908) |
1901–1905 | Liberal | 19th | |
| 18 |  |
Francis Morris MHA for Harbour Main (1862–1947) |
1905–1908 | Liberal | 20th | |
| Vacant 1909 |
21st | |||||
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William Warren MHA for Port de Grave (1879–1929) |
1909–1914 | People's | 22nd | |
| 20 | John R. Goodison MHA for Carbonear (1866–1926) |
1914–1918 | People's | 23rd | ||
| 21 | William J. Higgins MHA for St. John's East (1880–1943) |
1918–1920 | People's | |||
| 22 |  |
William F. Penney MHA for Carbonear (1862–1934) |
1920–1924 | Liberal Reform | 24th | |
| 23 | Harry A. Winter MHA for Port de Grave (1889–1969) |
1923–1924 | Liberal Reform | 25th | ||
| 24 | Cyril J. Fox MHA for St. John's East (1889–1946) |
1924–1928 | Liberal-Conservative | 26th | ||
| 25 | Albert Walsh MHA for Harbour Main (1900–1958) |
1928–1932 | Liberal | 27th | ||
| 26 |  |
James A. Winter MHA for Burgeo (1886–1971) |
1933–1934 | United Newfoundland | 28th | |
| Responsible government suspended 1934–1949 | ||||||
| 27 | Reginald F. Sparkes MHA for St. Barbe (1906–1990) |
1949–1956 | Liberal | 29th | ||
| 30th | ||||||
| 28 | John R. Courage MHA for Fortune Bay and Hermitage (1915–1970) |
1957–1962 | Liberal | 31st | ||
| 32nd | ||||||
| 29 | George W. Clarke MHA for Carbonear (1910–2000) |
1963–1971 | Liberal | 33rd | ||
| 34th | ||||||
| Vacant 1972 |
35th | |||||
| 30 | James Russell MHA for Lewisporte (born 1940) |
1972–1975 | Progressive Conservative | 36th | ||
| 31 | Gerry Ottenheimer MHA for Waterford-Kenmount (1934–1998) |
1975–1979 | Progressive Conservative | 37th | ||
| 32 | Len Simms MHA for Grand Falls (born 1943) |
1979–1982 | Progressive Conservative | 38th | ||
| (30) | James Russell MHA for Lewisporte (born 1940) |
1982–1985 | Progressive Conservative | 39th | ||
| 33 |  |
Patrick McNicholas MHA for St. John's Centre (1919–1990) |
1985–1989 | Progressive Conservative | 40th | |
| 34 | Tom Lush MHA for Bonavista North (born 1939) |
1989–1993 | Liberal | 41st | ||
| (30) | Paul Dicks MHA for Humber West (born 1950) |
1993–1995 | Liberal | 42nd | ||
| 35 | Lloyd Snow MHA for Trinity-Bay de Verde (born 1943) |
1995–2003 | Liberal | |||
| 43rd | ||||||
| 44th | ||||||
| 36 | Harvey Hodder MHA for Waterford Valley (1943–2020) |
2003–2007 | Progressive Conservative | 45th | ||
| 37 | Roger Fitzgerald MHA for Bonavista South (born 1947) |
2007–2011 | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 46th | ||||||
| 38 | Ross Wiseman MHA for Trinity North (born 1953) |
2011–2014 | Progressive Conservative | 47th | ||
| 39 | Wade Verge MHA for Lewisporte |
2014–2015 | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 40 |  |
Tom Osborne MHA for Waterford Valley (born 1964) |
2015–2017 | Liberal | 48th | |
| 41 |  |
Perry Trimper MHA for Lake Melville |
2017–2019 | Liberal | ||
| 42 | Scott Reid[2] MHA for St. George's-Humber |
2019–2021 | Liberal | 49th | ||
| 43 | Derek Bennett MHA for Lewisporte-Twillingate |
2021–present | Liberal | 50th | ||
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