If you only increment the number when a new person is elected to SOTH, Mike Johnson is the 56th unique person to hold the office.
Take a look through wikipedia's list of speakers and you will see what I mean. The same men hold the office and alternate in and out multiple times. Every time this happens, the SOTH number incriments by one on this list. But if you click on their names you will see the other counting system that only increments when a new individual takes the office. By that counting system, Mike Johnson is exactly number 56. You can even see that listed on his official wikipedia page.
So the 56 number from that press release is nothing unusual. However the 45 number that Scalise used remains entirely interdasting.
Actually, after looking at this little more closely. There have only been 56 speakers. Many people have been speakers multiple times but there's only been 56 total, but none of this answer is why he was introduced as 45 because he should be 56.
Bingo. That's as far as I have gotten with unraveling this mystery as well.
By the official record the 45th SOTH was John W. McCormack who served in the position from 1962 to 1971. This means the dates don't line up as nicely with the US becoming a corporation as we had previously thought.
"It is the honor of a lifetime to have been elected the 56th Speaker of the House.“
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1348
If you only increment the number when a new person is elected to SOTH, Mike Johnson is the 56th unique person to hold the office.
Take a look through wikipedia's list of speakers and you will see what I mean. The same men hold the office and alternate in and out multiple times. Every time this happens, the SOTH number incriments by one on this list. But if you click on their names you will see the other counting system that only increments when a new individual takes the office. By that counting system, Mike Johnson is exactly number 56. You can even see that listed on his official wikipedia page.
So the 56 number from that press release is nothing unusual. However the 45 number that Scalise used remains entirely interdasting.
Yes I concur...very interdasting.
Makes Scalises' introduction more interesting.
56th?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
David B Henderson 1899 - 1903.
David B Henderson was the Speaker for the 56th Congress, not the 56th Speaker.
Actually, after looking at this little more closely. There have only been 56 speakers. Many people have been speakers multiple times but there's only been 56 total, but none of this answer is why he was introduced as 45 because he should be 56.
Bingo. That's as far as I have gotten with unraveling this mystery as well.
By the official record the 45th SOTH was John W. McCormack who served in the position from 1962 to 1971. This means the dates don't line up as nicely with the US becoming a corporation as we had previously thought.