Andriy Livytskyi
| Andriy Mykolayovych Livytskyi Андрій Миколайович Лівицький |
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| 1st President of Ukraine in exile | |
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In office July 16, 1948 – January 17, 1954 |
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| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Stepan Vytvytskyi |
| 3rd Chairman of the Directory | |
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In office May, 1926 – July 16, 1948 |
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| Preceded by | Symon Petliura |
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position reformed (as President of Republic) |
| Prime Minister of UPR | |
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In office 1922–1926 |
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| President | Directoria |
| Preceded by | Pylyp Pylychuk |
| Succeeded by | Vyacheslav Prokopovych |
| Prime Minister of UPR | |
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In office October 14, 1920 – November 18, 1920 |
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| President | Directoria |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Prokopovych |
| Succeeded by | Pylyp Pylychuk |
| Personal details | |
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9 April 1879 Krasnyi Kut, near Liplyave, Poltava Governorate |
| Died | 17 January 1954 (aged 74) Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
Andriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi (Ukrainian: Андрій Миколайович Лівицький; born April 9, 1879 in Lyplyavo, the Russian Empire (now Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine) — died January 17, 1954) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and lawyer.
He was president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1948–1954) and the Chairman of the Directory prior to reforming that office into the presidential.
Andriy Livytskyi was born on 9 April 1879 in Lyplyavo (at the time part of the Russian Empire) into an old Cossack family. He finished the Gymnasium of Pavlo Halahana in Kiev, and later went on to study at the mathematical and juridical faculties of the St. Volodymyr Kiev University in 1896. In 1897 and 1899 he was held in the Lukyanivska Prison in Kiev for participation in protests. He was expelled from the university and exiled to Poltava Governorate under the secret surveillance of police for taking part in the student's strike of 1899. After obtaining his university diploma in 1903, he served in the Lubny Circuit Court, and then, since 1905, he was a barrister of the Kharkiv Court Chamber, and in 1913–1917 an elected judge of Zolotonosha uyezd in the Poltava Governorate. In his studential years, he took part in the Ukrainian independence movement, heading one of the organization's bases in Kiev.
From 1901, he belonged to the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), heading its regional headquarters in Lubny. He was jailed once again in connections to the revolutionary activities of 1906 and after escaping was imprisoned again in 1907. Since 1917, Livytskyi was a member of the Central Rada and the Peasant Union (Ukraine). In the period of the Hetmanate (1918), he was a member of the Ukrainian National Union, in opposition to the government of Pavlo Skoropadsky. Later during the time of the Directorate of Ukraine, he was one of the founders of the Labour Council of Ukraine - the highest governing body of Ukraine. Livytskyi also held positions as the Minister of Justice and the deputy of the Rada of National Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) in 1919, as well as the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government of Isaak Mazepa in 1919. From October 14 to November 18, 1920 he served as the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
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