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(1863-present)
The House Republican Conference Chairman presides over conference meetings,
which are composed of all members of the Republican party. The chair is
elected by the conference, and is limited to two consecutive full terms.
A list of House Republican Conference Chairmen from 1863 to present is
presented below.
The House Republican Conference serves as the organizational forum to elect
party leaders at the outset of each new Congress. The conference meets on a
weekly basis to discuss party policy, pending legislative issues, and other
matters of mutual concern.
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Congress |
Name |
State |
Years of Service |
38th-39th | Justin S. Morrill
| Vermont | 1863-18671 | 40th | n/a2
| ......... | 1867-1869 | 41st | Robert C. Schenck
| Ohio | 1869-18713 | 41st | Nathaniel P. Banks
| Massachusetts | 1869-18713 | 42nd | Austin Blair
| Michigan | 1871-1873 | 43rd | Horace Maynard
| Tennessee | 1873-1875 | 44th | George W. McCrary
| Iowa | 1875-1877 | 45th | Eugene Hale
| Maine | 1877-1879 | 46th | William P. Frye
| Maine | 1879-1881 | 47th | George M. Robeson
| New Jersey | 1881-1883 | 48th-50th | Joseph G. Cannon
| Illinois | 1883-1889 | 51st-53rd | Thomas J. Henderson
| Illinois | 1889-1895 | 54th-55th | Charles H. Grosvenor
| Ohio | 1895-1899 | 56th-57th | Joseph G. Cannon
| Illinois | 1899-1903 | 58th-60th | William P. Hepburn
| Iowa | 1903-1909 | 61st-62nd | Frank D. Currier
| New Hampshire | 1909-1913 | 63rd-65th | William S. Greene
| Massachusetts | 1913-1919 | 66th-67th | Horace M. Towner
| Iowa | 1919-1923 | 68th | Sydney Anderson
| Minnesota | 1923-1925 | 69th-72nd | Willis C. Hawley
| Oregon | 1925-1933 | 73rd | Robert Luce
| Massachusetts | 1933-1935 | 74th | Frederick R. Lehlbach
| New Jersey | 1935-1937 | 75th-81st | Roy O. Woodruff
| Michigan | 1937-1951 | 82nd-84th | Clifford R. Hope
| Kansas | 1951-1957 | 85th-87th | Charles Hoeven
| Iowa | 1957-1963 | 88th | Gerald R. Ford
| Michigan | 1963-1965 | 89th-90th | Melvin Laird
| Wisconsin | 1965-1969 | 91st-95th | John B. Anderson
| Illinois | 1969-1979 | 96th | Samuel L. Devine
| Ohio | 1979-1981 | 97th-99th | Jack Kemp
| New York | 1981-19874 | 100th | Dick Cheney
| Wyoming | 1987-19894 | 101st-102nd | Jerry Lewis
| California | 1989-1993 | 103rd | Richard K. Armey
| Texas | 1993-1995 | 104th-105th | John A. Boehner
| Ohio | 1995-1999 | 106th-107th | J. C. Watts Jr.
| Oklahoma | 1999-2003 | 108th-present | Deborah Pryce
| Ohio | 2003-present |
1 Representative
Morrill is the first officially designated Republican caucus chairman.
There exists no clear evidence of formal chairmanships of Republican
organizations in earlier Congresses.
2 Caucus minutes
show three Members (Representative Banks of Massachusetts, Luck
Poland of Vermont, and Samuel Hooper of Massachusetts) chairing
three separate meetings.
3 Caucus minutes
show Representative Schenck elected" chairman, but Representative
Banks chairing two early meetings, possibly in Schenck's absence.
4 On June 4, 1987,
Representative Cheney was elected Conference Chair to succeed Representative
Kemp who resigned from the post.
Source: Congressional Research Service
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