Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives A. Halleck who became Republican House leader and Minority Leader from 1959 to 1965, Hale Boggs who died in a plane crash, and Dick Gephardt who became the Democrats' House leader but as Minority Leader since his party lost control in the 1994 midterm elections. Since 1995, the only Majority Leader to become Speaker is John Boehner, though indirectly as his party lost control in the 2006 midterms elections. He subsequently served as Republican House leader and Minority Leader from 2007 to 2011 and then was elected Speaker when the House reconvened in 2011. In 1998, with Speaker Newt Gingrich
October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election is a Speaker election, and we will look at his body of work and determine whether he gets a passing grade or not." October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election An election for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives took place on October 29, 2015, during the 114th U.S. Congress. The election was necessitated by the announcement of Speaker John Boehner's resignation, set for October 30. Boehner was the first Speaker to resign in the middle of a Congressional term since Jim Wright in 1989. Boehner had been the leader of the House Republican