Artist: Helen Parsons Shepherd
Portrait Hung: 13 May 2008

Election of the Speaker (12 November 2003, Hansard)

Clerk: Please be seated.

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- and this is in the Lieutenant-Governor's own words -

NOW THEREFORE, I, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador do authorize and direct you, the said A. John Noel and Elizabeth Murphy, to signify to Members of the House of Assembly on the 12th day of November, 2003, that it is my pleasure that they should proceed to choose some person to be their Speaker and to present such person for my approbation when I call the House of Assembly together in session later on.

Therefore, you have heard His Honour's direction that you should elect a Speaker to preside over your deliberations. As of 4:30 yesterday afternoon, in accordance with the Standing Orders, the sole candidate having declared his intention to seek the Office of Speaker, being Mr. Harvey Hodder, pursuant to the Standing Orders, I declare Mr. Hodder, the Member for Waterford Valley, elected as the Speaker of the 45th General Assembly.

45^nd General Assembly, Swearing-in Ceremony and Election of the Speaker (12 November 2003).

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Approbation of the Speaker (18 March 2004, Journal)

45^nd General Assembly, 1^st Session (18 March 2004).

Approbation of the Speaker (18 March 2004, Hansard)

45^nd General Assembly, 1^st Session (18 March 2004).