Ingegerd Troedsson

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Ingegerd Troedsson (5 June 1929 - 3 November 2012) was a Swedish Moderate Party politician.^[1] She served as the first female Speaker of the Riksdag.^[2]^[3]

She was born in Vaxholm and was elected to the Riksdag in 1974. She had a junior role in the first non-socialist government of 1976. In 1979 she was elected vice speaker of the Riksdag, a post she held until 1991 when, after the Moderate election victory, she was elected the first female speaker of the Swedish Riksdag.

She was a candidate for party leader in 1986 - after Ulf Adelsohn had resigned - but lost to Carl Bildt. Instead, she was elected deputy chairman - a position she held until 1993.

References

↑ "Ingegerd Troedsson (M)". www.riksdagen.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Parliament. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
↑ "Val av talman". www.riksdagen.se (in Swedish). The Swedish Parliament. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
↑ Enköping TT. "Ingegerd Troedsson död | Inrikes | SvD" (in (Swedish)). Svd.se. Retrieved 2012-11-05.

Preceded by Thage G. Peterson	Speaker of the Riksdag 1991-1994	Succeeded by Birgitta Dahl

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 46305167 LCCN: no2000044462 ISNI: 0000 0000 5152 8965

Persondata
Name	Troedsson, Ingegerd
Alternative names
Short description	Swedish politician
Date of birth	1929-06-05
Place of birth
Date of death	2012-11-03
Place of death

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