Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives

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The Majority Whip is an elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives who assists the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader to coordinate ideas on and garner support for proposed legislation. This position, unlike Speaker of the House, is not mandated by the Constitution. Instead, it emerged near the beginning of the 20th century.

Majority Whips, 1897-present

Term	Whip	Party	State
1897-1905	James A. Tawney	Republican	Minnesota
1905-1909	James E. Watson	Republican	Indiana
1909-1911	John W. Dwight	Republican	New York
1911-1913	None
1913-1915	Thomas M. Bell	Democratic	Georgia
1915-1919	None
1919-1923	Harold Knutson	Republican	Minnesota
1923-1931	Albert H. Vestal	Republican	Indiana
1931-1933	John McDuffie	Democratic	Alabama
1933-1935	Arthur H. Greenwood	Democratic	Alabama
1935-1942	Patrick J. Boland	Democratic	Pennsylvania
1942-1945	Robert Ramspeck	Democratic	Georgia
1945-1947	John J. Sparkman	Democratic	Alabama
1947-1949	Leslie C. Arends	Republican	Illinois
1949-1953	J. Percy Priest	Democratic	Tennessee
1953-1955	Leslie C. Arends	Republican	Illinois
1955-1961	Carl Albert	Democratic	Oklahoma
1961-1971	Thomas Hale Boggs	Democratic	Louisiana
1971-1973	Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.	Democratic	Massachusetts
1973-1977	John J. McFall	Democratic	California
1977-1981	John W. Brademas	Democratic	Indiana
1981-1987	Thomas S. Foley	Democratic	Washington
1987-1989	Tony Coelho	Democratic	California
1989-1991	William H. Gray III	Democratic	Pennsylvania
1991-1995	David E. Bonior	Democratic	Michigan
1995-2003	Tom DeLay	Republican	Texas
2003-present	Roy Blunt	Republican	Missouri

See also

• Whip
• Minority Whip of the United States House of Representatives
• Majority Whip of the United States Senate
• Minority Whip of the United States Senate