List of the Marshals of the Sejm

This is a list of Sejm Marshals, or Speakers of the Sejm (the Lower house of the Polish Parliament) since its establishment as a regular convening body in the late 15th century, until now.^[1][2]

Kingdom of Poland (1547–1569)

№	Name (Birth–Death)	Tenure			Sejm
		Start	End	Duration
1	Stanisław Podlodowski[a] (d. 1550)	10 December 1547	31 January 1548	53 days	in Piotrków
2	Jan Sierakowski (c. 1498–1589)	31 October 1548	11 November 1548	12 days	in Piotrków
3	Mikołaj Sienicki[a] (c. 1520–1581)	15 May 1550	26 July 1550	73 days	in Piotrków
4	Rafał Leszczyński (c. 1526–1592)	2 February 1552	9 April 1552	68 days	in Piotrków
5	Mikołaj Sienicki (c. 1520–1581)	1 February 1553	29 March 1553	57 days	in Kraków
		22 April 1555	15 June 1555	55 days	in Piotrków
		6 December 1556	14 January 1557	40 days	in Warsaw
		5 December 1558	8 February 1559	66 days	in Piotrków
6	Rafał Leszczyński (c. 1526–1592)	30 November 1562	25 March 1563	116 days	in Piotrków
7	Mikołaj Sienicki (c. 1520–1581)	22 November 1563	1 April 1564	132 days	in Warsaw
		18 January 1565	14 April 1565	87 days	in Piotrków
8	Stanisław Sędziwój Czarnkowski (1526–1602)	10 January 1569	12 August 1569	215 days	in Lublin

Source:^[3]

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Mikołaj Sienicki Lew Sapieha Jakub Szczawiński Krzysztof Wiesiołowski Aleksander Korwin Gosiewski Jakub Sobieski Stefan Pac Jerzy Ossoliński Krzysztof Radziwiłł Mikołaj Ostroróg Kazimierz Leon Sapieha Łukasz Opaliński Bogusław Leszczyński Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski Hieronim Radziejowski Wincenty Aleksander Gosiewski Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac Jan Kazimierz Umiastowski Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł Jan Wielopolski Jan Chryzostom Pieniążek Feliks Kazimierz Potocki Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski

Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski Stanisław Antoni Szczuka Krzysztof Zawisza[4] Jan Szembek Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki Stanisław Ernest Denhoff Franciszek Maksymilian Ossoliński Teodor Lubomirski Michał Józef Massalski Wacław Rzewuski Tadeusz Franciszek Ogiński Antoni Benedykt Lubomirski Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski Jacek Małachowski Celestyn Czaplic Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł Andrzej Mokronowski Kazimierz Krasiński Stanisław Małachowski Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha

Partitioned Poland (1795–1918)

Duchy of Warsaw

№	Name (Birth–Death)	Portrait	Tenure
			Start	End	Duration
1	Tomasz Adam Ostrowski (1735–1817)		9 March 1809	24 March 1809	16 days
2	Stanisław Sołtyk (1752–1833)		11 December 1811	27 December 1811	17 days
3	Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734–1823)		23 June 1812	28 June 1812	6 days

Source:^[5]

Congress Poland

№	Name (Birth–Death)	Portrait	Tenure
			Start	End	Duration
1	Wincenty Krasiński (1782–1858)		27 March 1818	27 April 1818	32 days
2	Rajmund Hiacynt Rembieliński (1774–1841)		13 September 1820	13 October 1820	31 days
3	Stanisław Piwnicki (1787–1840)		13 May 1825	13 June 1825	32 days
4	Józef Gabriel Lubowidzki (1788–1871)		28 May 1830	28 June 1830	32 days
5	Władysław Tomasz Ostrowski (1790–1869)		18 December 1830	23 September 1831	280 days

Source:^[5]

Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria

No	Name	Sejm	Period
1	Leon Sapieha	I II III	1861–1875
2	Alfred Józef Potocki	III	1875
3	Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki	III	1876
4	Ludwik Wodzicki[6]	IV	1877-80
5	Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz	IV V	1881-86
6	Jan Dzierżysław Tarnowski	V VI	1886-90
7	Eustachy Stanisław Sanguszko	VI	1890-95
8	Stanisław Marcin Badeni[6]	VII	1895-1901
9	Andrzej Potocki[6]	VIII	1901-02
(8)	Stanisław Marcin Badeni	VIII IX	1903-12
10	Adam Gołuchowski	X	1913-14
11	Stanisław Niezabitowski	X	1914-18

Second Polish Republic (1919–1939)

№	Name (Birth–Death)	Portrait	Political affiliation		Term of office			Sejm
					Start	End	Duration
1	Wojciech Trąmpczyński (1860–1953) [7]			Independent	14 February 1919	27 November 1922[b]	3 years, 287 days	Legislative
2	Maciej Rataj (1884–1940) [9]			Polish People's Party "Piast"	1 December 1922	28 November 1927	4 years, 338 days	1st
3	Ignacy Daszyński (1866–1936) [10]			Polish Socialist Party	27 March 1928	30 August 1930	2 years, 157 days	2nd
4	Kazimierz Świtalski (1886–1962) [11]			BBWR	9 December 1930	10 July 1935	4 years, 214 days	3rd
5	Stanisław Car (1882–1938) [10]			BBWR[c]	4 October 1935	18 June 1938	2 years, 258 days	4th
6	Walery Sławek (1879–1939) [10][11]			Independent	22 June 1938	13 September 1938	84 days
7	Wacław Makowski (1880–1942) [12]			Camp of National Unity	24 November 1938	2 November 1939	344 days	5th

Source:^[8]

Communist era (1947–1991)

№	Name (Birth–Death)	Portrait	Party		Term of office			Sejm
					Start	End	Duration
1	Władysław Kowalski (1894–1958)			People's Party	4 February 1947	20 November 1952	5 years, 291 days	Legislative
				United People's Party
2	Jan Dembowski (1889–1963)			Independent	20 November 1952	20 November 1956	4 years, 0 days	1st
3	Czesław Wycech (1899–1977)			United People's Party	20 February 1957	20 February 1961	4 years, 0 days	2nd
					15 May 1961	16 April 1965	3 years, 336 days	3rd
					24 June 1965	30 May 1969	3 years, 340 days	4th
					27 June 1969	13 February 1971	1 year, 232 days	5th
4	Dyzma Gałaj (1915–2000)			United People's Party	13 February 1971	15 February 1972	1 year, 2 days
5	Stanisław Gucwa (1919–1994)			United People's Party	28 March 1972	19 March 1976	3 years, 357 days	6th
					25 March 1976	21 March 1980	3 years, 362 days	7th
					2 April 1980	31 August 1985	5 years, 151 days	8th
6	Roman Malinowski (1935–2021)			United People's Party	6 November 1985	3 June 1989	3 years, 209 days	9th
7	Mikołaj Kozakiewicz (1923–1998)			United People's Party	4 July 1989	25 November 1991	2 years, 144 days	10th
				Polish People's Party "Rebirth"
				Polish People's Party

Source:^[13][14]

Republic of Poland (since 1991)

In the aftermath of the Round Table Agreement of 1989, the Polish People's Republic was abolished and the modern-day Republic of Poland was established on 31 December 1989 by the constitutional amendment. However, the incumbent term of the Sejm, elected at the 1989 election, remained in position, until parliament dissolution and election of 1991.^[8][14]

№	Name (Birth–Death)	Portrait	Parliamentary group (party)[d]		Constituency	Term of office			Sejm
						Start	End	Duration
1	Wiesław Chrzanowski (1923–2012) [15]			Christian National Union	28 (Lublin)	25 November 1991	14 October 1993	1 year, 323 days	1st
2	Józef Oleksy (1946–2015) [16]			Democratic Left Alliance (SdRP)	39 (Siedlce)	14 October 1993	3 March 1995	1 year, 140 days	2nd
3	Józef Zych (born 1938) [17]			Polish People's Party	52 (Zielona Góra)	3 March 1995	20 October 1997	2 years, 231 days
4	Maciej Płażyński (1958–2010) [18]			Solidarity Electoral Action	11 (Gdańsk)	20 October 1997	18 October 2001	3 years, 364 days	3rd
				Independent
5	Marek Borowski (born 1946) [19]			Democratic Left Alliance	19 (Warsaw I)	19 October 2001	20 April 2004	2 years, 185 days	4th
				Social Democracy of Poland
(2) 6	Józef Oleksy (1946–2015) [20]			Democratic Left Alliance	18 (Siedlce)	21 April 2004	5 January 2005	260 days
7	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (born 1950) [21]			Democratic Left Alliance	24 (Białystok)	5 January 2005	18 October 2005	287 days
8	Marek Jurek (born 1960) [22]			Law and Justice	10 (Piotrków Trybunalski)	26 October 2005	27 April 2007	1 year, 184 days	5th
				Right Wing of the Republic
9	Ludwik Dorn (1954–2022) [23]			Law and Justice	20 (Warsaw II)	27 April 2007	4 November 2007	192 days
10	Bronisław Komorowski (born 1952) [24]			Civic Platform	20 (Warsaw II)	5 November 2007	8 July 2010	2 years, 246 days	6th
11	Grzegorz Schetyna (born 1963) [25]			Civic Platform	1 (Legnica)	8 July 2010	7 November 2011	1 year, 123 days
12	Ewa Kopacz (born 1956) [26]			Civic Platform	17 (Radom)	8 November 2011	22 September 2014	2 years, 319 days	7th
—	Deputy Marshal Jerzy Wenderlich (born 1954) Acting [27]			Democratic Left Alliance	5 (Toruń)	22 September 2014	24 September 2014	3 days
13	Radosław Sikorski (born 1963) [28]			Civic Platform	4 (Bydgoszcz)	24 September 2014	23 June 2015	273 days
—	Deputy Marshal Jerzy Wenderlich (born 1954) Acting [29]			Democratic Left Alliance	5 (Toruń)	23 June 2015	25 June 2015	3 days
14	Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska (born 1957) [30]			Civic Platform	19 (Warsaw I)	25 June 2015	11 November 2015	140 days
15	Marek Kuchciński (born 1955) [31]			Law and Justice	22 (Krosno)	12 November 2015	9 August 2019	3 years, 271 days	8th
16	Elżbieta Witek (born 1957) [32]			Law and Justice	1 (Legnica)	9 August 2019	11 November 2019	4 years, 96 days
						12 November 2019	12 November 2023		9th
17	Szymon Hołownia (born 1976) [33]			Poland 2050	24 (Białystok)	13 November 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 252 days	10th

Source:^[8][14][34]

See also

• Marshal of the Senate of Poland

Notes

1. Presumed, most probable officeholder.
2. The term formally lasted until 1 December 1922, when the 1st term Sejm became legitimate after it elected its Marshal, which was a prerequisition of the provisions on transitional period. The last sitting of the Legislative Sejm took place on 27 November 1922. The 1st term Sejm convenied from 28 November 1922 under the Senior Marshal, a pro tempore presiding officer.^[8]
3. Until 30 October 1935, when the Bloc was dissolved.
4. When the officeholder's parliamentary group and political party are not one and the same, the party membership is specified in parentheses.