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Name	Position	Session	Party	County	District	Born/Died
Anderson, George Holmes	Speaker	1871-1875*	W, R	Allegheny	23	1832 - 1890
Best, Valentine	Speaker	1847-1849*	D	Columbia, Luzerne	13	1801 - 1857
Bigler, William	Speaker	1841-1845*	JD	Armstrong, Cambria, Clearfield, Indiana	20	1814 - 1880
Bingham, William	Speaker	1793-1796*	F	Philadelphia	0	1752 - 1804
Brady, James	Speaker	1803-1814*	DR	Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland	0	1763 - 1839
Brodhead, Albert Gallatin	Speaker	1869-1871*	D	Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wayne	10,13	1815 - 1891
Browne, Nathaniel Borrodaille	Speaker	1855-1857*	D	Philadelphia	0	1819 - 1875
Burden, Jesse Reading	Speaker	1827-1838*	D	Philadelphia	0	1796 - 1875
Burnside, Thomas	Speaker	1811-1826*	JR	Centre, Clearfield, McKean, Potter	13	1782 - 1851
Carson, Thomas Erskine	Speaker	1845-1853*	W	Adams, Franklin	11,18	1791 - 1857
Crispin, Benjamin	Speaker	1841-1843*	D, BD	Philadelphia	2	1792 - 1864
Cunningham, Thomas Scott	Speaker	1931-1940*	D	Crawford, Erie, Mercer	23	1790 - 1855
Davis, Elisha W	Speaker	1827-1838*	R	Philadelphia	0	1828 - 1887
Ewing, John Hoge	Speaker	1837-1841*	W, R	Washington	0,17	1796 - 1887
Finney, Darwin Asahel	Speaker	1855-1857*	W	Crawford, Erie	20	1814 - 1868
Francis, William Miller	Speaker	1857-1859*	R	Lawrence, Mercer, Venango	26	1810 - 1894
Gibbons, Charles L	Speaker	1845-1847*	W	Philadelphia	1	1814 - 1884
Graham, James Leonard	Speaker	1863-1873*	R	Allegheny	24	1817 - 1895
Hall, Louis Williams	Speaker	1861-1867*	R	Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry	20,21	1833 - 1897
Hamlin, Byron Delano	Speaker	1853-1855*	D	Clearfield, Elk, Forest, McKean, Potter, Tioga	18	1824 - 1907
Hare, Robert	Speaker	1795-1800*	F	Delaware, Philadelphia	0	1752 - 1811
Hawkins, William George	Speaker	1823-1832*	JD, IMP	Greene, Washington	0	1799 - 1876
Hiester, William	Speaker	1841-1843*	AM	Lancaster, York	6	1790 - 1853
Hiester, William Muhlenberg	Speaker	1853-1855*	D	Berks	5	1818 - 1878
Johnston, William Freame	Speaker	1847	W	Armstrong, Cambria, Clearfield, Indiana	0	1808 - 1872
Kern, Jacob	Speaker	1831-1836*	BD	Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne	12	1790 - 1837
Kingsbury Jr, Ebeneezer	Speaker	1837-1841*	JD	Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Wayne	0	1804 - 1844
Kunkel, John Christian	Speaker	1851-1853*	W, R	Dauphin, Northumberland	0	1791 - 1857
Lane, Presley Carr	Speaker	1795-1818*	JR, ID, DR	Fayette, Greene, Westmoreland	0,17	1764 - 1819
Lawrence, George Van Eman	Speaker	1849-1882*	W, R	Beaver, Greene, Washington	23,46	1818 - 1914
Lowrie, Walter	Speaker	1811-1818*	DR	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler	0	1784 - 1868
Maclay, Samuel	Speaker	1797-1802*	DR	Northumberland	0	1741 - 1811
Mahon, Alexander	Speaker	1821-1828*	DR	Cumberland, Perry	16	1782 - 1855
Markley, Philip S	Speaker	1819-1822*	DR	Montgomery	7	1789 - 1834
Marks Jr, William	Speaker	1819-1824*	DR	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler	0	1778 - 1858
Matthias, Benjamin	Speaker	1847-1851*	W	Philadelphia	1	1808 - 1852
Morris, Anthony	Speaker	1791-1794*	F	Philadelphia	0	1766 - 1860
Myers, Christian	Speaker	1851-1853*	D, W	Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana	0	1796 - 1877
Palmer, Robert Moffett	Speaker	1859-1861*	R	Schuylkill	0	1820 - 1862
Pearson, John	Speaker	1801-1804*	DR	Lancaster	0	1740 - 1829
Penney, John P	Speaker	1859-1863*	W, R	Allegheny	0	1817 - 1873
Penrose, Charles Bingham	Speaker	1833-1857*	DR, R	Cumberland, Perry, Philadelphia	0	1798 - 1857
Piatt, William McKinney	Speaker	1853-1855*	D	Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming	0	1814 - 1889
Postlethwaite, Samuel	Speaker	1793-1802*	F	Cumberland	0	1739 - 1810
Reyburn, John Edgar	Speaker	1877-1884*	R	Philadelphia	5	1845 - 1914
Ringland, Thomas	Speaker	1827-1834*	JD	Greene, Washington	0	1783 - 1869
Rogers, William Tennent	Speaker	1831-1839*	D	Bucks	4	1799 - 1866
Ross, William Sterling	Speaker	1845-1847*	IMP	Columbia, Luzerne	13	1802 - 1868
Rutan, James Smith	Speaker	1869-1890*	R	Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington	26	1838 - 1892
Sherwood, Daniel Lee	Speaker	1843-1845*	D	Bradford, Tioga	0	1809 - 1886
Steele, John	Speaker	1803-1806*	DR	Lancaster	0	1758 - 1827
Sterigere, John Benton	Speaker	1839-1845*	BD	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	2,3	1793 - 1852
Stinson, Charles Henderson	Speaker	1867-1869*	R	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	5	1825 - 1899
Strang, Butler B	Speaker	1871-1875*	R	Cameron, McKean, Potter, Tioga	16,25	1829 - 1884
Strohm, John	Speaker	1835-1841*	AM	Lancaster, York	6,7	1793 - 1844
Sturgeon, Daniel	Speaker	1827-1830*	JD	Fayette	19	1789 - 1878
Taggart, David	Speaker	1855-1857*	W	Dauphin, Northumberland	8	05/28/1822 - 06/30/1888
Tod, John	Speaker	1815-1818*	DR	Bedford, Cambria, Somerset	14	1780 - 1830
Turney, Jacob	Speaker	1857-1859*	D	Fayette, Westmoreland	22	1825 - 1891
Turrell, William J	Speaker	1863-1865*	R	Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wyoming	9,11	1814 - 1881
Walker, John Hoge	Speaker	1849-1851*	W	Crawford, Erie	27	1800 - 1875
Wallace, William Andrew	Speaker	1863-1886*	D	Blair, Cambria, Clearfield	20	1827 - 1896
Weaver, Isaac	Speaker	1809-1820*	JR	Greene, Washington	18	1756 - 1830
Welsh, William Henry	Speaker	1855-1859*	D	York	17	1826 - 1903
White, Henry Lloyd	Speaker	1863-1873*	R	Armstrong, Cambria, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland	21	1834 - 1920
Whitehill, Robert	Speaker	1801-1804*	DR	Cumberland	0	1738 - 1813
Wilcox, William Pendleton	Speaker	1843-1845*	JD, IMP	Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Venango, Warren	0	1794 - 1868
Williamson, William	Speaker	1847	W	Chester, Delaware	4	1794 - 1866
Woods, John	Speaker	1797-1800*	F	Allegheny, Greene, Washington	0	1761 - 1816

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