Correct, by the official record the 45th SOTH was John W. McCormack who served in the position from 1962 to 1971.
However I wonder if Scalise was referring to the speaker residing over the 45th congress when he called Johnson the 45th speaker. Perhaps these two ways of numbering are somewhat interchangeable?
Unfortunately, I factchecked this (yikes, I hate that word) last time this was posted, and this is not correct.
List of speakers
The first column is the Congress Number not the speaker number. So Michael C Kerr was the speaker in 44th congress, but he was the 32nd speaker.
The actual 44th speaker is somewhere in 1933 - gotta count manually.
Correct, by the official record the 45th SOTH was John W. McCormack who served in the position from 1962 to 1971.
However I wonder if Scalise was referring to the speaker residing over the 45th congress when he called Johnson the 45th speaker. Perhaps these two ways of numbering are somewhat interchangeable?
so John nance Garner 1931-1933
Yep.
Nice, good catch, don't worry - i like being wrong, and i don't care if you use a fact check terminology if you're correcting a mistake.