List of Majority Leaders of the North Dakota House of Representatives

The following is a List of Majority Leaders of the North Dakota House of Representatives, a position that was created in 1930 and first filled in 1931.^[1]

Number of North Dakota House majority leaders by party affiliation

Party		Leaders
Republican		21
	Republican	16
	Republican/NPL	3
	Republican/IVA	2
Democratic		2
	Democratic-NPL	2

#	Name	Term	Party	District
1	Luther L. Twichell	1931–1932	Republican-IVA	9
2	Herbert F. Swett	1933–1934	Republican/NPL	35
3	William J. Godwin	1935–1938	Republican/NPL	30
4	Reuben R. Scholl	1939–1940	Republican/NPL	46
5	Luther L. Twichell	1941–1944	Republican-IVA	9
6	Vernon M. Johnson	1945–1946	Republican	12
7	Winfred M. Smart	1947–1948	Republican	29
8	Arthur C. Johnson	1949–1950	Republican	9
9	Roy A. Holand	1951–1954	Republican	24
10	Hjalmar Carl Nygaard	1955–1958	Republican	14
11	Ben J. Wolf	1959–1962	Republican	36
12	Don Halcrow	1963–1964	Republican	1
13	Donald Griffey	1965–1966	Democratic-NPL	46
14	Bryce Streibel	1967–1974	Republican	14
15	Earl Strinden	1975–1982	Republican	18
16	Richard J. Backes	1983–1984	Democratic-NPL	3
17	Earl Strinden	1985–1988	Republican	18
18	Richard W. Kloubec	1989–1992	Republican	51
20	Robert W. Martinson	1993–1994	Republican	49
21	John Dorso	1995–2000	Republican	46
22	Wesley R. Belter	2001–2002	Republican	22
23	Rick Berg	2003–2007	Republican	45
24	Alan H. Carlson	2008–present	Republican	41

Notes

1. North Dakota Blue Book, 1989

External links

• State of North Dakota official website