Mister Speaker to Madam Speaker Biographies of the Nevada Assembly Speakers

By Cindy Southerland

• Discover who the eighteen Nevada-born Assembly Speakers are.

• Who are the four foreign-born Speakers?

• Which Speaker was born in prison?

• Find out the sad fate of the second Speaker.

• Which Speaker stirred a scandal?

• Learn about the evolution of the Legislature from carriages to computers, the effect of term limits, and interesting facts about Nevada’s first 65 Assembly Speakers.

• Selected Legislative Issues enacted during each Speakers various terms in office and Special Sessions are included.

• More than 180 resources and 350 photographs and related ephemera enhance each Speaker’s biography.