Office of the Clerk

Notable Office Assignments in the House

Offices Used by Speakers of the House

Including the first Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania, 52 individuals have wielded the gavel, including Henry Clay of Kentucky, Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine, Joseph Cannon of Illinois, Samuel Rayburn of Texas, and beginning with the opening of the 110th Congress (2007–2009), Nancy Pelosi of California.

The chart below lists the offices that Speakers of the House have used throughout their careers. Joseph Warren Keifer of Ohio, who had served for a single term as Speaker in the 47th Congress (1881–1883), left Congress in 1885, and returned to the House from 1905 to 1911, was the first Member to have served as Speaker and occupied a room in one of the office buildings. The building’s modern namesake, Joseph Cannon, never occupied one of its rooms—having secured Capitol offices even after he left the Speakership in 1911. Since the 1970s, Members who have ascended to the Speakership have continued to maintain a Member office in the office buildings to provide direct service to constituents, in addition to occupying official and ceremonial Speakers’ rooms in the Capitol. Office assignments provided are the numbers currently used for a given room.

Offices Used by Future Speakers of the House
Individual	Speakership	Office Assignment	Years of Occupancy
Joseph W. Keifer of Ohio	1881–1883	107 Cannon	1909–1911
Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois	1903–1911	N/A
James Beauchamp Clark of Missouri	1911–1919	N/A
Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts	1919–1925	203 Cannon 201 Cannon	1911–1913 1913–1919
Nicholas Longworth of Ohio	1925–1931	408 Cannon 310 Cannon 308 Cannon 310 Cannon	1909–1911 1911–1913 1915–1917 1917–1923
John N. Garner of Texas	1931–1933	316 Cannon 313 and 315 Cannon	1909–1927 1927–1929
Henry T. Rainey of Illinois	1933–1935	318 Cannon 504 Cannon	1909–1921 1923–1931
Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee	1935–1936	429 Cannon 436 Cannon 341 Cannon 344 and 346 Cannon	1909–1911 1911–1915 1915–1919 1919–1931
William B. Bankhead of Alabama	1936–1940	129 Cannon 102 Cannon 1211 Longworth	1917–1921 1921–1933 1933–1937
Sam Rayburn of Texas	1940–1947 1949–1953 1955–1961	515 Cannon 210 and 210A Cannon 1332, 1333 and 1334 Longworth 1332 and 1334 Longworth	1914–1931 1931–1933 1933–1935 1935–1937
Joseph W. Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts	1947–1949 1953–1955	129 Cannon 424 Cannon 1523 Longworth 1111 and 1113 Longworth	1925–1931 1931–1933 1933–1935 1935–1939
John W. McCormack of Massachusetts	1962–1971	508 Cannon 1727 and 1728 Longworth	1928–1933 1933–1941 1943–1947
Carl B. Albert of Oklahoma	1971–1977	437 Cannon 1037 Longworth 501 Cannon 2205 Rayburn	1947–1951 1951–1957 1957–1963 1971–1977
Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill of Massachusetts	1977–1987	312 and 314 Cannon 2231 Rayburn	1953–1965 1965–1987
James C. Wright, Jr. of Texas	1987–1989	1628 Longworth 1327 Longworth 2359 Rayburn 1236 Longworth	1959–1963 1963–1969 1965–1981 1981–1989
Thomas S. Foley of Washington	1989–1995	1519 Longworth 1523 Longworth 1314 Longworth 325 Cannon 1201 Longworth	1965 1965–1967 1967–1969 1969–1971 1971–1973
Newt Gingrich of Georgia	1995–1999	417 Cannon 1005 Longworth 2438 Rayburn 2428 Rayburn	1979–1981 1981–1987 1987–1993 1993–1999
J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois	1999–2007	515 Cannon 2453 Rayburn 2241 Rayburn 2263 Rayburn 2369 Rayburn 235 Cannon 2304 Rayburn	1987–1993 1993–1997 1997–1999 1999–2001 2001–2003 2003–2007 2007–2009
Nancy Pelosi of California	2007 to present	1632 Longworth 1517 Longworth 1005 Longworth 109 Cannon 240 Cannon 2457 Rayburn 2209 Rayburn 2371 Rayburn 235 Cannon	1987–1988 1988–1989 1989–1991 1991–1993 1993–1995 1995–2001 2001–2003 2003–2007 2007–2009