A sitting Alabama lawmaker died Wednesday morning.
Dmitri Polizos was the state representative for District 74 in Montgomery. On Tuesday afternoon he suffered a heart attack in his home. Polizos passed the next day. He was 68.
Polizos worked in the Montgomery County Commission from 2004 until winning the 74th District Seat in a 2013 special election. He was re-elected in 2014 and 2018. Polizos ran as a Republican all three times.
Governor Kay Ivey issued a statement calling Polizos a “man of honor and distinction” and praised his success as a business owner. Polizos owned the Italian and Greek Restaurant “Mr. G’s Ristorante”.