At present, the Speaker of the Home will get a foul rep. As chief of the Home of Representatives, the Speaker is liable for all of the Home does. Each the great and the dangerous. However Frederick Muhlenberg, the primary and third Speaker was not almost as controversial as his modern-day counterparts.
A member of the now-defunct Professional-Administration Social gathering, and later the Anti-Administration Social gathering and its successor the Democratic-Republican Social gathering, Muhlenberg codified lots of the traditions the Speaker nonetheless does and was liked by allies and rivals alike!
