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List of speakers
The House has elected a speaker 126 times since 1789: at the start of each of the 116 congresses plus on 10 occasions when an unexpected vacancy arose during a Congress. Of the 54 people who have served as speaker of the House over the past 235 years, 32 served multiple terms; seven of them served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Clay, John W. Taylor, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph W. Martin Jr., Sam Rayburn, and Nancy Pelosi). Altogether, there have been 63 occasions on which a new speaker took office.

As of July 2024 there are four living former speakers of the House: Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, John Boehner, and Paul Ryan. Nancy Pelosi was also among this group prior to reassuming the office in January 2019.