held the gavel for just more than three years, and former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was in the job for four years and nine months. It is not, however, unheard of in the past half century.

John Boehner’s autobiography, On the House, arrives next week and already the book’s anecdotes have garnered gushing coverage from the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, People ...

held the gavel for just more than three years, and former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was in the job for four years and nine months. It is not, however, unheard of in the past half century.