Prepared by the Legislative Council staff

SPEAKERS - NORTH DAKOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1889-2019

Year Name Address Party Affiliation 1889 David Wellman New Rockford Republican 1891 William B. Allen Ludden Republican 1893 George Walsh Grand Forks Republican 1895 James Gill Gill Republican 1897 Erastus Williams Bismarck Republican 1899 Thomas Baker Fargo Republican 1901 R. M. Pollock Fargo Republican 1903 Thos. Baker, Jr. Fargo Republican 1905 George Piercy Pingree Republican 1907 Treadwell Twichell Mapleton Republican 1909 Usher L. Burdick Munich Republican 1911 J. M. Hanley Mandan Republican 1913 J. H. Fraine Grafton Republican 1915 A. P. Hanson Litchville Republican 1917 Howard Wood Deering Republican-NPL 1919 L. L. Stair Bottineau Republican-NPL 1921 L. L. Twichell Fargo Republican-IVA 1923 Roy Johnson Casselton Republican-IVA 1925 B. C. Larkin Brantford Republican-NPL 1927 John W. Carr Jamestown Republican-IVA 1929 Edwin Traynor Starkweather Republican-IVA 1931 C. Vernon Freeman Grand Forks Republican-IVA 1933 Minnie Craig Esmond Republican-NPL 1935 William Crockett Wales Republican-NPL 1937 Math Dahl Hazelton Republican-NPL 1939 Oscar Hagen Watford City Republican-NPL 1941 Earl Symington Neche Republican-ROC 1943 Ralph Beede Elgin Republican-NPL 1945 A. R. Bergesen Fargo Republican-ROC 1947 Vernon Johnson Wahpeton Republican-ROC 1949 Palmer Levin Park River Republican-NPL 1951 Leo Sticka New England Republican-ROC 1953 Walter Bubel Center Republican-NPL 1955 K. A. Fitch Fargo Republican-ROC 1957 Ben Wolf Zeeland Republican-ROC 1959 Hjalmer Nygaard Enderlin Republican 1961 R. Fay Brown Bismarck Republican 1963 Stanley Saugstad Minot Republican 1965 Arthur Link Alexander Democratic-NPL

North Dakota Legislative Council November 29, 2018 Year Name Address Party Affiliation 1967 Gordon Aamoth Fargo Republican 1969 Ernest Johnson Dazey Republican 1971 Howard Bier Hazelton Republican 1973 Art Bunker Fargo Republican 1975 Robert Reimers Carrington Republican 1977 Oscar Solberg Rolla Democratic-NPL 1979 Vernon Wagner Bismarck Republican 1981 Jim Peterson Minot Republican 1983 Patricia “Tish” Kelly Fargo Democratic-NPL 1985 Roy Hausauer Wahpeton Republican 1987 Richard Kloubec Fargo Republican 1989 William Kretschmar Venturia Republican 1991 Ronald A. Anderson Keene Republican 1993 Rick Berg Fargo Republican 1995 Clarence Martin Lefor Republican 1997 Mike Timm Minot Republican 1999 Francis J. Wald Dickinson Republican 2001 LeRoy G. Bernstein Fargo Republican 2003 Janet Wentz Minot Republican 2005 Matthew M. Klein Minot Republican 2007 Underwood Republican 2009 David Monson Osnabrock Republican 2011 David Drovdal Arnegard Republican 2013 Finley Republican 2015 Wesley R. Belter Fargo Republican 2017 Larry Bellew Minot Republican 2019 Lawrence R. Klemin Bismarck Republican IVA - Independent Voters Association NPL - Nonpartisan League ROC - Republican Organizing Committee

North Dakota Legislative Council 2 November 29, 2018