List of speakers of the New Mexico House of Representatives explained

The following is a list of speakers of the New Mexico House of Representatives since statehood.

Speakers of the New Mexico House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
Roman L. Baca	1912–1915		Republican	Santa Fe
Secundino Romero	1915–1916		Republican	San Miguel		[1]
William H. H. Llewellyn	1916–1919		Republican	Las Cruces		[2]
Antonio A. Sedillo	1919–1921		Republican	Socorro
Albert H. Clancy	1921–1923		Republican	Santa Fe
Byron O. Beall	1923–1925		Democratic	Chaves
D. W. Smith	1925–1931		Democratic	Grant
Alvan N. White	1931–1939		Democratic	Grant
George W. Armijo	1939–1941		Democratic	Santa Fe
Frank J. McCarthy	1941–1943		Democratic	Chaves
M. S. Smith	1943–1949		Democratic	Curry
Harry Vearle Payne	1949–1945		Democratic	Hidalgo
John F. Sims	1949–1951		Democratic	Bernalillo
Calvin P. Horn	1951–1953		Democratic	Bernalillo
Alvin Stockton	1953–1955		Republican	Colfax
Donald D. Hallam	1955–1959		Democratic	Lea
Mack Easley	1959–1961		Democratic	Lea
Jack M. Campbell	1961–1963		Democratic	Chaves
Bruce King	1963–1969		Democratic	Santa Fe
David L. Norvell	1969–1971		Democratic	Curry
Walter K. Martinez	1971–1979		Democratic	Valencia
C. Gene Samberson	1979–1982		Democratic	Lea
Raymond G. Sanchez	1983–1985		Democratic	Bernalillo
Gene Samberson	1985–1987		Democratic	Lea
Raymond G. Sanchez	1987–2001		Democratic	Bernalillo
Ben Luján	2001–2012		Democratic	Santa Fe
W. Ken Martinez	2012–2015		Democratic	Albuquerque
Don Tripp	2015–2017		Republican
Brian Egolf	2017–2023		Democratic
Javier Martínez	2023–		Democratic

Speakers of the New Mexico Territorial House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
Theodore D. Wheaton	1851–1854		Taos		[3] [4]
Facundo Pino	1854–1855
Celedonio Valdés	1855–1856
José S. Ramirez	1856–1857
Merrill Ashurst	1857–1858
José Guadalupe Gallegos	1858–1859
Levi J. Keithly C. C. Medina	1859–1860
José Manuel Gallegos	1860–1863
Vicente García	1863–1864
Pedro Valdés	1864–1865
Samuel Ellison	1865–1866
Richard M. Stephens	1866–1867
Jose Manuel Gallegos	1867–1868
Richard M. Stephens	1868–1869
Gregorio M. Otero	1869–1870
Milnor Louis Rudulph	1871–1872
Gregorio M. Otero	1873–1874
Roman A. Vaca	1875–1876
Juan B. Patron	1878–1880		Lincoln		[5]
Rafael Romero	1880–1882
Pedro Sanchez	1882–1884
Amado Chavez	1884–1886
Manuel C. de Baca	1886–1887		Republican	Conant		[6]
Albert J. Fountain	1888–1889		Lincoln, Doña Ana		[7]
William Burns	1890–1891		Kingston		[8]
Alejandro J. Branch	1892–1893		Mora		[9]
William E. Dame	1894–1895		Cerrillos		[10]
William H. H. Llewellyn	1897		Republican	Las Cruces		[11]
Maximiliano Luna	1899		Los Lunas		[12]
Benjamin M. Read	1901		Santa Fe		[13]
Carl A. Dalies	1905		Republican	Belen		[14]
Roman L. Baca	1907–1909		Republican	Santa Fe
E. A. Miera	1909		Republican	Cuba		[15]

See also

• List of New Mexico state legislatures

Notes and References

1. Book: 9780313302121. Sharp. James Roger. Sharp. Nancy Weatherly. 1999. Bloomsbury Academic .
2. Book: New Mexico Blue Book 2015–2016. Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State. July 2015. Santa Fe, New Mexico. December 21, 2023.
3. Web site: House journal; proceedings. c.1 1851-52.. HathiTrust.
4. Book: Bancroft. Hubert Howe. Oak. Henry Lebbeus. History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530-1888 . December 21, 2023 . 1889. The History Company. San Francisco, California.
5. Web site: House journal; proceedings. 1878.. HathiTrust.
6. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1886-87.. HathiTrust.
7. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1888-89.. HathiTrust.
8. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1890-91.. HathiTrust.
9. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1892-93.. HathiTrust.
10. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1894-95.. HathiTrust.
11. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1897.. HathiTrust.
12. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1899.. HathiTrust.
13. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1901.. HathiTrust.
14. Web site: House Journal. Proceedings of the House of Representatives 1905.. HathiTrust.
15. Web site: House journal : proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Territory of New Mexico. yr.1909.. HathiTrust.