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Speaker (politics)

"Mr Speaker" redirects here. For the American racehorse, see Mr Speaker (horse).
Speakers and presiding officers from various Commonwealth nations meet for a Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 1984
Marshal's chair in the Sejm, lower chamber of the Polish Parliament

The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England.[1][2]

Speaker
Legislative Body
StatusPresiding Officer
Member ofLegislative Body
Formation1377 (1377)
  1. ^ Stubbs, William (1903). The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development. Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ "History of the Speakership", UK Parliament, 2021, retrieved 10 Aug 2023
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