Jonas Staugaitis

Jonas Staugaitis

Jonas Staugaitis pronunciation|Jonas Staugaitis.ogg (May 20, 1868ndash January 18, 1952) was the fourth President of Lithuania during the December 1926 coup d'état‎. He was formally elected for few hours as the Speaker of Seimas; as the highest-ranked official, he became "de jure" the President of Lithuania. He renounced the office after the coup d'état was complete.

He was a doctor, having studied in Warsaw University. In 1919, he was elected to Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) as a member of the Peasant Populist Party. On June 2, 1926, he was elected the head of Seimas.

He is buried in Petrašiūnai cemetery in Kaunas.


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