* Ian Sinclair, former Leader of the National Party and Speaker of the House of Representatives

* Top Speaker: Ian Hanomansing, Dalhousie University

* Top Speaker: Ian Hanomansing, Dalhousie University

* Top Speaker: Ian Hanomansing, Mount Allison University

The 1960 Miss Australia, Rosemary Fenton, became the second wife of Ian Sinclair, former leader of the federal National Party and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Its most prominent members have been Cameron, a former leader of the Country Party and later Speaker of the House in the Menzies government, and Ian McLachlan, a Cabinet minister in the Howard government.

It was previously held by Ian Causley, the Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.

When the Speaker of the House, Bob Halverson, suddenly resigned in March, Sinclair was elected to replace him.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

Henry Clay, unsuccessful candidate and Speaker of the House, despised Jackson, in part due to their fight for Western votes during the election, and he chose to support Adams, which led to him being elected President.

After 1922 Stormont Castle was used, though some prime ministers chose to live in Stormont House, the unused residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons.

When the 104th United States Congress convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former Minority Whip Newt Gingrich – the chief architect of their victory and author of the Contract with America – Speaker of the House, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose Bob Dole, previously Minority Leader, as Majority Leader.

Ultimately, the Lords chose to elect a Lord Speaker, which title was already used in the Standing Orders.

In the 2010 election, Republicans won a majority of 72 – 62, and chose Kurt Zellers to be their Speaker.

Two reluctant sponsors were found but McIntyre chose to present himself to the Speaker alone, later writing " I very clearly stated to the people of Motherwell and Wishaw that I would give no allegiance to the London-controlled parties ".< ref >

In 1936 McCormack backed Sam Rayburn's bid to become Speaker ; when the latter won the Speakership in 1940, he chose McCormack as majority leader.

He was Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 – 99, and he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998 but chose to withdraw and retire after an extramarital affair was discovered.

( Stormont House was nominally the residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons, but as speakers chose to live elsewhere, Prime Ministers used it as their residence, and turned their official residence, Stormont Castle into an office for their senior civil servants.

However, a number of prime ministers chose to live at Stormont House, the official residence of the Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, which was empty as a number of speakers had chosen to live in their own homes.

New Jersey's assembly politely declined to send delegates before adjourning in late June, but after political sentiment against the Stamp Act became more pronounced, Speaker Robert Ogden called an extra-legal assembly ( since only the governor could officially call it into session ) in late September that chose three delegates.

The reason is that before central heating was installed, the stove which heated the room was to the left of the Speaker and the governments of the day chose to be nearer the stove.

He was returned to parliament in 1459 for Northamptonshire again, and the parliament, packed with anti-Yorkists, chose him to act as Speaker of the House of Commons.

To balance Grant, a former Democrat and a hard drinker, the convention chose House Speaker Schuyler Colfax, a former Whig and temperance man, for Vice President.

While Bonson's win meant that the ALP now had a majority of their own, and could thus have appointed a member of the party as Speaker of the Assembly, new Chief Minister Clare Martin chose to offer Braham the position, and she quickly took up the offer.

Then House Speaker Dennis Hastert appointed a bipartisan search committee made up of 18 congressional members to recommend a new chaplain to him, but when that committee reportedly recommended Catholic priest Timothy O ' Brien ( selected by secret ballot after consideration of more than 50 applicants and nominees for the position ), Hastert chose Presbyterian minister Charles Parker Wright instead.

Rubi Rivlin, for his first official visit as Knesset Speaker, chose the Arab-Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm, just south of the Galilee.

The Speaker of the House is one of the officers to whom declarations of presidential inability of or ability to resume the presidency must be addressed under the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

Section 3 provides that when the President transmits a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, stating that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the Presidency, and until the President sends another written declaration to the aforementioned officers declaring himself able to resume discharging those powers and duties, the Vice President serves as Acting President.

The President may resume exercising the Presidential duties by sending a written declaration to the President pro tempore and the Speaker of the House.

* when the President transmits his written declaration to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate declaring that he is able to resume the powers and duties of his office and four days elapse without the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet restating their declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, if the incapacity was declared under section 4 of the 25th Amendment ( action by Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet ).

Peters claimed that his objection was on behalf of the incumbent Speaker, long-serving National MP Robin Gray, who had expected to resume his duties but was now being " cast aside " for political reasons.

Rowe was appointed to a third term as Speaker following the 1977 election ( which produced a second minority ) but resigned shortly into the session to resume his seat on the backbench.

On normal sitting days, the Speaker wears a black silk lay-type gown ( similar to a QC's gown ) with ( or without, in the case of Bercow ) a train and a mourning rossette ( also known as a ' wig bag ') over the flap collar at the back.

Duties in addition to normal management, financial and people capability tasks are in relation to the House security and maintaining good order in conduct of visitors ( strangers ) visiting the Gallery areas, Officials attending the House for Ministers, access controls to the doors to the floor of the House, lobbies and the on the floor of the House as directed by the Speaker.

The Lord Speaker may speak from the Woolsack when speaking in his or her capacity as Speaker of the House, but must, if he or she seeks to debate, deliver his or her remarks either from the left side of the Woolsack, or from the normal seats of the Lords.

Speaker Bercow refused to require Bryant retract his allegation that Hunt was a " liar ” on the basis that the debate was on a " substantive motion on the conduct of a minister, the normal rules about parliamentary language frankly don't apply ".

No Parliamentary business is conducted during that time, except the taking of oaths of allegiance and the election of a Speaker by the House of Commons.

In the Commons, business was presided over by the Speaker who, in the absence of a government chosen from and answerable to the Commons, was the dominant political figure in the parliament.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

The Speaker tried to restore order but he was reminded by labour leader Randol Fawkes that the business of the House could not legally continue without the mace.

The Speaker then directs that a message be sent to the Senate and President informing them that a quorum of the House has been established, that a new Speaker and Clerk have been elected and that members have been given the oath of office and that the House is ready to conduct legislative business and is prepared to receive any communication from the President or Senate.

In the Commons, business was presided over by the Speaker, who in the absence of a government chosen from and answerable to the Commons was the dominant political parliamentary figure.

If the Speaker was kept late on business, his wife always went up to have dinner with him.

Until 2001, the election of a Speaker was conducted as a routine matter of House of Commons business, as it used motions and amendments to elect.

Speaker Slipper went one step further to restoring the traditional dress by the gown and the QC's bar jacket underneath his business attire.

Despite being overseas on legitimate parliamentary business, his staff had failed to file the necessary paperwork with the Speaker to give notice of his absence.

The Speaker presides over the business of Parliament from the elevated ' Speaker's Chair ' behind The Table in the debating chamber.

Upon his election as Speaker, Slipper moved to restore various traditions of the office of Speaker such as wearing elements of the traditional speaker's dress by not only wearing the gown but also the QC's bar jacket underneath his business attire.

In the Commons, business was presided over by the Speaker who, in the absence of a government chosen from and answerable to the Commons, was the dominant political figure in the parliament.

Webster University also hosts a speaker series, originally titled The Success to Significance Speaker Series and now known as the Walker Speaker Series, that has featured business professionals including Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Edward Whitacre, Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT & T Inc., and August A. Busch IV, President & CEO of Anheuser-Busch.

* ( 1 ) After a general election, the National Assembly shall, at its first meeting and to the exclusion of any other business, elect from amongst its members a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker and, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, the Assembly shall elect another member as Speaker or, as the case may be, Deputy Speaker.

Speaker of Vidhan Sabha who is responsible for the conduct of business of the body, and also a Deputy Speaker to preside during the Speaker's absence.