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Thu Dec 24, 2020, 03:10 AM Dec 2020

Jack Page, longtime legislator representing Gadsden, dies at 70

Former Alabama House of Representatives member John “Jack” Page III, who represented the Gadsden area for 17 years, died Monday in a local hospital, Alabama House Public Information Officer Clay Redden said Tuesday.

Page was 70 and had been in poor health since surgery in June. He recently contracted the COVID-19 virus, said his former wife, Rebecca Gray Page.

Page was a member of the Gadsden City Council when he was elected to the House in a special election in 1993 to succeed the late June Bugg. He was a Democrat and was reelected four times, but he lost the 2010 general election to Republican Becky Nordgren of Gadsden.

“Jack, as long as I knew him, was a public servant, and he did his best for his community,” Becky Page said. She said she and her former husband remained friends after a divorce.

Read more: https://www.gadsdentimes.com/story/news/2020/12/15/former-legislator-jack-page-dies/3915113001/

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