What is Gene Zwozdesky?
[[File:Gene Zwozdesky - Jun 2013.JPG|right|200px]] '''Gene Zwozdesky''', {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MLAAB}} (July 24, 1948 – January 6, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He was in the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] from 1993 to 2015, and was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title= Premier Redford welcomes Gene Zwozdesky as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly |url= http://alberta.ca/acn/201205/323597B55EA25-B6C2-FA8B-282DD3D414A1143E.html |publisher= Government of Alberta |access-date= 23 May 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was born in [[Nipawin, Saskatchewan]]. Zwozdesky died of [[cancer]] in [[Edmonton, Alberta]] on January 6, 2019, aged 70.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-gene-zwozdesky-death-1.4967933|title=Gene Zwozdesky, former Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, has died - CBC News |author= Dave Dormer · CBC News |date= Jan 6, 2019 |orig-year= last update: January 7, 2019 |website= CBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Alex Antoneshyn |url= https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/edmonton-mla-legislative-speaker-gene-zwozdesky-dies-1.4242567 |title= Edmonton MLA, legislative speaker Gene Zwozdesky dies |publisher=[[CFRN-DT|CTV Edmonton]] |date=2019-01-06 |access-date= 2019-01-06}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commons category}} *[https://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_bio&rnumber=37 Alberta Legislative Assembly biography Gene Zwozdesky] *[http://www.cbc.ca/albertavotes2004/riding/037/ Edmonton Mill Creek political history, CBC News] {{DEFAULTSORT:Zwozdesky, Gene}} [[Category:1948 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Canada]] [[Category:Politicians from Alberta]] [[Category:Politicians from Saskatchewan]] {{bio-stub}}