Ryszard Terlecki

Ryszard Terlecki
Deputy Marshal of the Sejm
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 November 2015
Head of the Law and Justice Parliamentary Caucus
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 November 2015
Preceded by	Mariusz Błaszczak
Personal details
Born	Ryszard Iwon Terlecki (1949-09-02) September 2, 1949 Kraków, Poland
Children	3
Alma mater	Jagiellonian University
Profession	Historian
Website	Official website

Ryszard Iwon Terlecki (born September 2, 1949) is a Polish politician, the Parliamentary Caucus Head of the Law and Justice party. Terlecki, a historian and professor of humanities, lectures at the Pontifical University of John Paul II. He is a Member of the Sejm, serving since 2007.

Personal life

He is the son of writer and journalist Olgierd Terlecki who was a secret collaborator of the Security Service in PRL for 35 years, and his wife Janina. In his youth, he was a participant in the hippie movement and one of the precursors of this youth subculture in Poland. He was known in the environment under the pseudonym Pies (pol. Dog). Then he took part in opposition movements - as a co-worker of Workers' Defence Committee, member of "Solidarity" independent trade union, and journalist in underground press. He was married twice, and has three children from his first marriage.