Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Appearance
The Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
The Speaker is selected by secret ballot in the first session of a new legislative assembly.
List of speakers
[edit]No. | Portrait | Name Electoral district (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Legislature | ||
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Term start | Term end | ||||||
1 | Charles W. Fisher MLA for Banff (until 1909) MLA for Cochrane (from 1909) (1866–1919) |
March 15, 1906 |
May 5, 1919 |
Liberal | 1st | ||
2nd | |||||||
3rd | |||||||
4th | |||||||
2 | Charles Pingle MLA for Redcliff (1880–1928) |
February 17, 1920 |
July 18, 1921 |
Liberal | |||
3 | Oran McPherson MLA for Little Bow (1886–1949) |
February 2, 1922 |
May 25, 1926 |
United Farmers | 5th | ||
4 | George Johnston MLA for Coronation (1884–1977) |
February 10, 1927 |
July 22, 1935 |
United Farmers | 6th | ||
7th | |||||||
5 | Nathan Eldon Tanner MLA for Cardston (1898–1982) |
February 6, 1936 |
January 4, 1937 |
Social Credit | 8th | ||
6 | Peter Dawson MLA for Little Bow (1892–1963) |
February 25, 1937 |
March 24, 1963 |
Social Credit | |||
9th | |||||||
10th | |||||||
11th | |||||||
12th | |||||||
13th | |||||||
14th | |||||||
7 | Arthur J. Dixon MLA for Calgary South (until 1971) MLA for Calgary-Millican (from 1971) (1919–2007) |
March 26, 1963 |
March 1, 1972 |
Social Credit | |||
15th | |||||||
16th | |||||||
8 | Gerard Amerongen MLA for Edmonton-Meadowlark (1914–2013) |
March 2, 1972 |
June 11, 1986 |
Progressive Conservative | 17th | ||
18th | |||||||
19th | |||||||
20th | |||||||
9 | David J. Carter MLA for Calgary-Egmont (born 1934) |
June 12, 1986 |
August 30, 1993 |
Progressive Conservative | 21st | ||
22nd | |||||||
10 | Stanley Schumacher MLA for Drumheller (1933–2020) |
August 30, 1993 |
April 14, 1997 |
Progressive Conservative | 23rd | ||
11 | Ken Kowalski MLA for Barrhead-Westlock (until 2004) MLA for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock (from 2004) (born 1945) |
April 14, 1997 |
May 23, 2012 |
Progressive Conservative | 24th | ||
25th | |||||||
26th | |||||||
27th | |||||||
12 | Gene Zwozdesky MLA for Edmonton-Mill Creek (1948–2019) |
May 23, 2012 |
June 11, 2015 |
Progressive Conservative | 28th | ||
13 | Bob Wanner MLA for Medicine Hat (born 1949) |
June 11, 2015 |
May 20, 2019 |
New Democratic | 29th | ||
14 | Nathan Cooper MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills (born 1980) |
May 21, 2019 |
Incumbent | United Conservative | 30th | ||
31st |
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Alberta Legislative Assembly List of Speakers
- History of the Speakers of the Assembly Hansard May 16, 2006[permanent dead link ]