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
editNo. | 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
editExternal links
edit- Alberta Legislative Assembly List of Speakers
- History of the Speakers of the Assembly Hansard May 16, 2006[permanent dead link ]