{"id":2558,"date":"2020-11-09T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:56:47","slug":"matthew-ritter-will-be-the-latest-speaker-from-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/matthew-ritter-will-be-the-latest-speaker-from-hartford\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Ritter will be the latest speaker from Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With Hartford’s Matthew D. Ritter set to become the next speaker<\/a> of the Connecticut House of Representatives, this is a good time to list the seven previous speakers from Hartford. They include Ritter’s father, Thomas D. Ritter. All lived in the city at the time of their election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name<\/strong><\/td>Political Party<\/strong><\/td>Term of Service<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
William W. Eaton<\/td>Democratic<\/td>1853<\/td><\/tr>
Henry C. Deming<\/td>Democratic<\/td>1861<\/td><\/tr>
Eliphalet A. Bulkeley<\/td>Union<\/td>1857<\/td><\/tr>
William W. Eaton<\/td>Democratic<\/td>1873<\/td><\/tr>
Joseph L. Barbour<\/td>Republican<\/td>1897<\/td><\/tr>
James J. Kennelly<\/td>Democratic<\/td>1975-78<\/td><\/tr>
Thomas D. Ritter<\/td>Democratic<\/td>1993-98<\/td><\/tr>
Matthew D. Ritter<\/td>Democratic<\/td>2020-<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Source: Connecticut Register and Manual, 2019 edition, published by the Secretary of the State. Online at https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/-\/media\/SOTS\/RegisterManual\/RM_Archive\/CT2019.pdf <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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With Hartford’s Matthew D. Ritter set to become the next speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, this is a good time to list the seven previous speakers from Hartford. They include Ritter’s father, Thomas D. Ritter. All lived in the city at the time of their election. Name Political Party Term of Service William … Continue reading “Matthew Ritter will be the latest speaker from Hartford”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,80],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","tag-state-capitol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordhistory.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}