Offices Used by Speakers of the House
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Beginning
with the first Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania, 54
individuals have wielded the gavel, including Henry
Clay of Kentucky, Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine, Joseph
Cannon of Illinois, and Samuel
Rayburn of Texas. 18 have been assigned rooms in the House Office Buildings
during their long careers.
The chart below lists the offices that Speakers have used during their House
service. Joseph Warren Keifer of Ohio was the first
Speaker to occupy a room in the House's office buildings. Keifer served for a
single term as Speaker in the 47th Congress (1881–1883), long before separate
offices for Members of Congress were considered. When he returned to House
service from 1905 to 1911, he was part of the first wave of Members to move
into the Cannon building. Although the Cannon building’s namesake, Joseph Cannon,
was Speaker when the first office building was built in 1908, he never occupied
one of its rooms, preferring his Capitol offices even after he left the
Speakership in 1911. Since the 1970s, Members who have ascended to the
Speakership have continued to maintain Member offices in the office buildings,
in addition to their official and ceremonial Speakers’ rooms in the
Capitol, the better to provide direct service to constituents. Office
assignments provided are the numbers currently used for a given room.
| Individual | State | Office Assignment | Years of Occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph W. Keifer | Ohio | 107 Cannon | 1909–1911 |
| Joseph G. Cannon | Illinois | N/A | |
| James Beauchamp Clark | Missouri | N/A | |
| Frederick H. Gillett | Massachusetts | 203 Cannon 201 Cannon | 1911–1913
1913–1919 |
| Nicholas Longworth | Ohio |
408 Cannon 310 Cannon 308 Cannon 310 Cannon | 1909–1911 1911–1913 1915–1917 1917–1923 |
| John N. Garner | Texas | 316 Cannon 313 and 315 Cannon | 1909–1927 1927–1929 |
| Henry T. Rainey | Illinois |
318 Cannon 504 Cannon | 1909–1921 1923–1931 |
| Joseph W. Byrns | Tennessee |
429 Cannon 436 Cannon 341 Cannon 344 and 346 Cannon | 1909–1911 1911–1915 1915–1919 1919–1931 |
| William B. Bankhead | Alabama |
129 Cannon 102 Cannon 1211 Longworth | 1917–1921 1921–1932 1933–1936 |
| Sam Rayburn | Texas | 515 Cannon 210 and 210A Cannon 1332, 1333 and 1334 Longworth 1332 and 1334 Longworth | 1914–1931 1931–1932 1933–1934 1935–1936 |
| Joseph W. Martin, Jr. | Massachusetts |
129 Cannon 424 Cannon 1523 Longworth 1111 and 1113 Longworth | 1925–1931 1931–1932 1933–1934 1935–1938 |
| John W. McCormack | Massachusetts |
508 Cannon 1727 and 1728 Longworth | 1928–1932 1933–1940 1943–1946 |
| Carl B. Albert | Oklahoma |
437 Cannon 1037 Longworth 501 Cannon 2205 Rayburn | 1947–1950 1951–1956 1957–1962 1971–1976 |
| Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill | Massachusetts |
312 and 314 Cannon 2231 Rayburn | 1953–1964 1965–1986 |
| James C. Wright, Jr. | Texas |
1628 Longworth 1327 Longworth 2459 Rayburn 1236 Longworth | 1955–1958 1959–1964 1965–1980 1981–1988 |
| Thomas S. Foley | Washington | 1519 Longworth 1523 Longworth 1314 Longworth 325 Cannon 1201 Longworth | 1965 1965–1966 1967–1968 1969–1970 1971–1972 |
| Newt Gingrich | Georgia |
417 Cannon 1005 Longworth 2438 Rayburn 2428 Rayburn | 1979–1980 1981–1986 1987–1992 1993–1998 |
| J. Dennis Hastert | Illinois |
515 Cannon 2453 Rayburn 2241 Rayburn 2263 Rayburn 2369 Rayburn 235 Cannon 2304 Rayburn | 1987–1992 1993–1996 1997–1998 1999–2000 2001–2002 2003–2006 2007 |
| Nancy Pelosi | California |
1632 Longworth 1517 Longworth 1005 Longworth 109 Cannon 240 Cannon 2457 Rayburn 2371 Rayburn 235 Cannon | 1987 1988–1988 1989–1990 1991–1992 1993–1994 1995–2002 2003–2006 2007 to present |
| John Boehner | Ohio | 1020 Longworth 1011 Longworth | 1991–1994 1995 to present |
| Paul D. Ryan | Wisconsin | 1217 Longworth 1113 Longworth 1233 Longworth | 1999-2005 2005-2011 2011-present |