John Douglas Pridnia (March 16, 1943 – November 17, 2016) was an American politician in the state of

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

. Pridnia was born in

Detroit, Michigan Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at ...

and attended Macomb Community College and Wayne State University. A Republican, he represented the 106th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1989 to 1990 and the 36th District in the Michigan Senate from 1991 to 1994 (36th district). In 2016, it was announced that he had

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...

(ALS). Pridnia died on November 17, 2016, aged 73.

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1943 births 2016 deaths Politicians from Detroit Wayne State University alumni Businesspeople from Michigan Republican Party members of the Michigan House of Representatives Republican Party Michigan state senators 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American legislators {{Iowa-politician-stub