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Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Legislatures of the State of Texas. Name. Party. Term in office. Legislative. sessions. William Crump. Democratic. February 16, 1846 – March 3, 1846.
The speaker is elected by the Texas House of Representatives from its membership. [1] [2] On the first day of each regular session, the members may nominate a fellow member, and a record vote is held to determine who the speaker will be. The Secretary of State calls the House to order, and presides over the chamber until a speaker is elected.
John Nance Garner, U.S. Representative (1903–1933), Speaker of the House (1931–1933), and Vice President of the United States (1933–1941) Lance Gooden, U.S. Representative (2019–present) O.H. "Ike" Harris, Dallas County representative from 1963 to 1965; state senator (1967–1995) Sarah T. Hughes, United States district court judge
The first is the most important: With 150 members, it takes at least 76 votes to become House speaker. The breakdown of the membership is 86 Republicans and 63 Democrats, plus one vacancy. But ...
Texas State Legislature. The Texas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a powerful arm of the Texas government not only because of its power of the purse to ...
Dade Phelan. Matthew McDade Phelan (born September 18, 1975) is an American real estate developer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he serves in Texas House of Representatives representing District 21, which includes most of Jefferson and all of Orange and Jasper counties in the southeast corner of the state.
Phelan, who was first elected in 2014 and became speaker in 2021, has perhaps the most politically precarious job in Texas: House speakers must be elected by their districts and 150 members of the ...
Joseph Richard Straus III (born September 1, 1959) is an American politician who served as the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 2009 to 2019. A Republican, he represented District 121, which comprises northeastern Bexar County, including parts of San Antonio and several surrounding communities, from his first election to the House in 2005 until his retirement in 2019.