Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

* 1884 – Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician, 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ( d. 1968 )

He told Sir Henry Vane he was a Jugler ; Henry Martin and Sir Peter Wentworth, that they were Whoremasters ; Thomas Chaloner, he was a Drunkard ; and Allen the Goldsmith that he cheated the Publick: Then he bid one of his Soldiers take away that Fool's Bauble the mace and Thomas Harrison pulled the Speaker of the Chair ; and in short Cromwell having turned them all out of the House, lock'd up the Doors and returned to Whitehall.

The Scottish National Party ( SNP ) does stand against the Speaker if he or she represents a Scottish constituency, as was the case with Michael Martin, Speaker from 2000 to 2009.

On 10 June 2009, Beckett announced that she wished to replace Michael Martin as Speaker of the House of Commons.

Famous residents born or who have lived in the area include the political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill, the actor and writer Dirk Bogarde, former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP, TV and National Lottery draw presenter Jenni Falconer, singers Amy Macdonald and Lena Martell, as well as former Miss Scotland and Miss United Kingdom Nieve Jennings and actor and rock singer Steve Valentine.

Joseph William Martin, Jr. ( November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968 ) was a Republican Congressman and Speaker of the House from North Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Martin served as Speaker of the House of Representatives on two separate occasions from 1947 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1955.

The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin.

Michael Martin, elected in 2000, was the first Roman Catholic Speaker since the Reformation.

The House of Commons Procedure Committee then re-examined the means of electing a Speaker and recommended a new system which came into effect in 2007 and was first used in June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin.

For example, on Wednesday 3 December 2008, Speaker Martin addressed the House on the subject of the arrest of Damien Green MP and the subsequent searching of his office within the precincts of the House of Commons.

* Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn ( born 1945 ), former Speaker of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom

The tongue-in-cheek suggestion by Skinner was scoffed at by Speaker Michael Martin.

However, he so disliked the term " minority leader " that he asked to be referred to as the " Democratic Leader " during those interim four years when the office of Speaker was held by the Republican Joseph W. Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts, actually a close personal friend of Rayburn's.

Following the 1997 general election, he was appointed Chairman of Ways and Means ( Deputy Speaker ), remaining in that post under successive Speakers Betty Boothroyd, Michael Martin, and John Bercow until May 2010.

Alan Haselhurst was considered a contender to succeed Martin at the announcement of his resignation as Speaker on 19 May 2009, given his evident lack of competence in the role he failed in his bid.

In May 2009 he was also one of the 15 MPs to sign the Motion of No Confidence in Speaker Martin.

In the end, Young was not elected as Speaker, with the House instead choosing Labour MP Michael Martin for the role.

Following the resignation of the Speaker, Michael Martin, Bercow announced his intention to stand for the Speakership election on 22 June 2009 and was successful.

Bercow had long campaigned quietly to become Speaker and was touted as a successor to Michael Martin.

In December 2008, Marshall-Andrews became the first Labour MP to publicly call for the resignation of Speaker Michael Martin over the arrest of Damian Green.

Signed by U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower, the law was pushed through Congress by U. S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn.

Eventually, with the help of Bartlett's influence, the Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, who up until 1957 had been an ardent opponent of the Alaskan statehood cause, changed his mind and when Congress reconvened in January 1958, President Eisenhower fully endorsed the bill for the first time.

Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter administration and later worked for six years as a top aide to longtime Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O ' Neill, playing a direct role in many key political battles with the Reagan administration.

As presiding officer of the state senate, Chandler worked with Speaker of the House John Y.

He is living as an anonymous Speaker for the Dead, keeping his identity as the " Ender the Xenocide " who orchestrated the victory over the Formics a secret ; his book " The Hive Queen and the Hegemon " in which he " spoke for the dead " Formics worked well enough ( worked as it was intend to do ) such that most of humanity now considers Ender to have been a heartless monster who destroyed a race for no reason, and the name " Ender " is now considered vile, an insult.

As Speaker, he worked to defeat the Three Strikes Law.

Elected Speaker of the House in 1843, 1844, and 1845, Moore worked closely with Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick in the liquidation of the State Bank.

Following the election, Zury Ríos worked as an administrative assistant to the FRG congressional bloc and as private secretary to the Speaker of Congress.

Carnahan also had already worked for Missouri House Speaker Bob F. Griffin, Missouri Secretary of State Jim Kirkpatrick, and Missouri House Majority Leader Tony Ribaudo ; had served on the executive committee of the Missouri Democratic Party ; and, was the deputy Missouri campaign manager for Dick Gephardt ’ s 1988 presidential campaign.

He was again elected Speaker in 1442 and 1447 and continued his royal service, mainly for the Duchy of Lancaster, and worked as an Apprentice-at-law between 1444 and 1447.

Agnos worked with his mentor former California Assembly Speaker and Lt.

" He cited examples such as Shirvell calling the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi where Armstrong worked " in an attempt to slander Armstrong " and get him fired, trying to " out " Armstrong's friends as homosexual, and harassing Armstrong's friends while out socializing in Ann Arbor ; Shirvell called Pelosi's office and posted some of his online blog comments on Armstrong while he was on the job as an assistant attorney general.

At Weyerhauser he worked with former classmate and later Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Richard Eymann.

Pringle worked his way up the Republican hierarchy, and in 1996, after a protracted power struggle between Republicans and former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, he was elected Speaker of the Assembly.

On February 12, 2005 Ludger Volmer retired as the Speaker for Foreign Affairs of the Green faction in the Bundestag, after the media criticized his work as a consultant for the company Synthesis GmbH, which worked for the Bundesdruckerei, producing identity cards, banknotes and other secure documents.

After being a centerpiece of the 2010 Republican takeover of the North Carolina Legislature he worked closely with Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis whom he is close friends with both being from the Charlotte area.

He worked as the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the present-day Uttar Pradesh for a period of 13 years, from July 31, 1937 to August 10, 1950.

In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.

Interjections from both government and opposition members in the House of Representatives and the Senate are common, and broadly speaking are an accepted practice, although the Speaker of the House or the President of the Senate will intervene if interjections become too frequent, if they contain inappropriate content, or if the member interjecting is disrupting debate.

Coke, as Speaker of the House of Commons ( whose job was to introduce any bills ), conducted a delaying campaign, first suggesting that the bill was too long to be read in the morning and then that it be delegated to a committee ; both suggestions were voted down by the Commons.

In 1872, Cockburn was nominated for a second term as Speaker despite reservations by the Opposition that he had been too favourable to the government in his rulings.

He also criticized then Democratic House leader Thomas P. O ' Neill Jr. for being " too liberal ", and was in turn characterized by Speaker O ' Neill as being " often wrong but never in doubt .".

Though Ma had offered Wang the nomination as the KMT's Vice Presidential candidate, Wang recently declined the offer, saying that the pressure of being legislative Speaker was too great for him to be able to consider the offer.

* When the President, by reason of absence from Pakistan or any other cause, is unable to perform his functions, the Chairman or, if he too is absent or unable to perform the functions of the office of President, the Speaker of the National Assembly shall perform the functions of President until the President returns to Pakistan or, as the case may be, resumes his functions.

The Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon, acting as the Speaker of the House, noted the absence of several Lords, notably Lords Byron and Erskine, because they were either abroad or too elderly to attend.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Republicans that the election was a warning sign for the 2006 midterms and that while they should not yet panic, they should " think " before it was too late.