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Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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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

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rowspan="2" |No.

! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Portrait

! rowspan="2" scope="col" width="200px" | Name
Electoral district
(Birth–Death)

! colspan="2" scope="col" width="100px" | Term of office

! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Party

! rowspan="2" |Legislature

width="95px" |Term start

!width="95px" |Term end

rowspan="4" |1

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| rowspan="4" |Charles W. Fisher
MLA for Banff (until 1909)
MLA for Cochrane (from 1909)
(1866–1919)

| rowspan="4" |March 15,
1906

| rowspan="4" |May 5,
1919

| rowspan="4" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal}}; |

| rowspan="4" width="100px"|Liberal

|1st

2nd
3rd
rowspan="2" |4th
2

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|Charles Pingle
MLA for Redcliff
(1880–1928)

|February 17,
1920

|July 18,
1921

|style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|Liberal}}; |

|Liberal

3

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|Oran McPherson
MLA for Little Bow
(1886–1949)

|February 2,
1922

|May 25,
1926

|style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|United Farmers}}; |

|United Farmers

|5th

rowspan="2" |4

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| rowspan="2" |George Johnston
MLA for Coronation
(1884–1977)

| rowspan="2" |February 10,
1927

| rowspan="2" |July 22,
1935

| rowspan="2" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|United Farmers}}; |

| rowspan="2" |United Farmers

|6th

7th
5

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|Nathan Eldon Tanner
MLA for Cardston
(1898–1982)

|February 6,
1936

|January 4,
1937

|style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit}}; |

|Social Credit

| rowspan="2" |8th

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| rowspan="7" |6

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| rowspan="7" |Peter Dawson
MLA for Little Bow
(1892–1963)

| rowspan="7" |February 25,
1937

| rowspan="7" |March 24,
1963

| rowspan="7" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit}}; |

| rowspan="7" |Social Credit

9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
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| rowspan="2" |14th

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| rowspan="3" |7

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| rowspan="3" |Arthur J. Dixon
MLA for Calgary South (until 1971)
MLA for Calgary-Millican (from 1971)
(1919–2007)

| rowspan="3" |March 26,
1963

| rowspan="3" |March 1,
1972

| rowspan="3" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|Social Credit}}; |

| rowspan="3" |Social Credit

15th
16th
rowspan="4" |8

| rowspan="4" |

| rowspan="4" |Gerard Amerongen
MLA for Edmonton-Meadowlark
(1914–2013)

| rowspan="4" |March 2,
1972

| rowspan="4" |June 11,
1986

| rowspan="4" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}; |

| rowspan="4" |Progressive Conservative

|17th

18th
19th
20th
rowspan="2" |9

| rowspan="2" |

| rowspan="2" |David J. Carter
MLA for Calgary-Egmont
(born 1934)

| rowspan="2" |June 12,
1986

| rowspan="2" |August 30,
1993

| rowspan="2" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}; |

| rowspan="2" |Progressive Conservative

|21st

22nd
10

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|Stanley Schumacher
MLA for Drumheller
(1933–2020)

|August 30,
1993

|April 14,
1997

|style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}; |

|Progressive Conservative

|23rd

rowspan="4" |11

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| rowspan="4" |Ken Kowalski
MLA for Barrhead-Westlock
(until 2004)
MLA for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock
(from 2004)
(born 1945)

| rowspan="4" |April 14,
1997

| rowspan="4" |May 23,
2012

| rowspan="4" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}; |

| rowspan="4" |Progressive Conservative

|24th

25th
26th
27th
12

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|Gene Zwozdesky
MLA for Edmonton-Mill Creek
(1948–2019)

|May 23,
2012

|June 11,
2015

|style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|PC}}; |

|Progressive Conservative

|28th

13

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|Bob Wanner
MLA for Medicine Hat
(born 1949)

|June 11,
2015

|May 20,
2019

|style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|NDP}}; |

|New Democratic

|29th

rowspan="2" |14

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| rowspan="2" |Nathan Cooper
MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills
(born 1980)

| rowspan="2" |May 21,
2019

| rowspan="2" |Incumbent

| rowspan="2" style="background:{{Canadian party colour|AB|UCP}}; |

| rowspan="2" |United Conservative

|30th

31st

See also

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090101233209/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/pub/gdbook/Part3/page8.htm Alberta Legislative Assembly List of Speakers]
  • [http://isys.assembly.ab.ca:8080/isysquery/irlf702/1/doc History of the Speakers of the Assembly Hansard May 16, 2006]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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