Ezra T. Champlin

Ezra T. Champlin

20th Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
In office 1891–1892
Preceded by	Charles H. Graves
Succeeded by	William E. Lee
Personal details
Born	1839 Vermont
Died	1928
Political party	Alliance
Residence	Garden City Township, Minnesota
Profession	Farmer

Ezra T. Champlin (1839 in Vermont – 1928) was a Minnesota politician and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, the only member of the Alliance Party ever to lead the chamber. He first served in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1875, and was sent back to the body from 1887 to 1888.^[1] He was elected speaker during his third stint in the legislature, in 1891, as part of an alliance between the Alliance Party and the Democratic Party.^[2]

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Political offices
Preceded by Charles H. Graves	Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives 1891–1892	Succeeded by William E. Lee

Speakers of the Minnesota House of Representatives

Territorial (1849–1857)	Furber Ames Ludden Day Taylor Norris Gardner Furber

State (since 1857)	Watrous Bradley Coggswell Benson Sherwood Benson Armstrong Wakefield Farmer Davidson J. Merriam Hall Kinyon Gibbs Gilman Fletcher Gibbs W. Merriam Graves Champlin Lee Van Sant Jones Dare Dowling Babcock Clague L. Johnson Rockne Dunn Rines Flowers Parker Nolan J. Johnson Swenson Munn G. Johnson Barker Hall Hartle A. Johnson Chilgren Duxbury Dirlam Sabo Searle Norton Sieben Jennings Norton Vanasek Long Anderson Carruthers Sviggum Anderson Kelliher Zellers Thissen Daudt

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