John Nance Garner took this post a year before being elected as Vice President.
John Nance Garner took this post a year before being elected as Vice President. While holding this post, Thomas Reed introduced rules that established the principle of party responsibility. President Ronald Reagan said he was friends after 6 PM with the holder of this office, Tip O'Neill. The first holder of this office was Frederick Muhlenberg. After the Vice President, the holder of this post is next in the line of presidential succession. Name this post currently held by John Boehner [BAY-ner].
John Nance Garner took this post a year before being elected as Vice President.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives