Stanisław Zając (,ławZają 1 May 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish lawyer and politician. He was a member of Sejm 1991–1993 and Sejm 1997–2001. On 25 September 2005 he was elected a member of the Sejm again, getting 25,225 votes in 22 Krosno district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list.

Zając was born in Święcany. On 1 May 1949, he won the by-election for the Polish Senate, held in Krosno-constituency following the death of Senator Andrzej Mazurkiewicz.

Stanisław Zając

He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.

Stanisław Zając

Zając was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of the Polonia Restituta (2010). He had been awarded the gold and silver medals for his contribution to national defence (2010 and 2009, respectively) and he was made a Freeman of the Municipality of Dydnia Jasło in 2010.

Stanisław Zając

See also

List of Sejm members (2005–2007)

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1949 births

2010 deaths

Christian National Union politicians

Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Jagiellonian University alumni

Law and Justice politicians

Deputy Marshals of the Sejm of the Third Polish Republic

Members of the Polish Sejm 1991–1993

Members of the Polish Sejm 1997–2001

Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007

Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011

People from Jasło County

20th-century Polish lawyers

Polish senators

Victims of the Smolensk air disaster