Stanisław Cat-Mackiewicz
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Stanisław Mackiewicz
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| Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile | |
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In office 8 June 1954 – 21 June 1955 |
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| Preceded by | Jerzy Hryniewski |
| Succeeded by | Hugon Hanke |
| Member of the Sejm | |
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In office 1928–1935 |
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| Born |
18 December 1896 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | 18 February 1966 (aged 69) Warsaw, Poland |
| Resting place | Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party | BBWR |
| Occupation | Politician, writer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Stanisław "Cat" Mackiewicz (18 December 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russia – 18 February 1966 in Warsaw, Poland) was a conservative Polish writer, journalist and monarchist.
Interwar journalist called him the foremost political journalist of the interbellum Second Polish Republic.
Mackiewicz was born into a Polish family that had historically used the Bożawola coat-of-arms.
Mackiewicz joined the Polish Military Organisation in 1917 and served as a volunteer in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21. He published and the editor-in-chief of the independent Wilno (Vilnius) periodical titled "Słowo," wholly financially supported by the noble families of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He actively promoted the idea of the so-called Jagellonian Poland, i.e., return to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth style of governance in Eastern Europe.
He supported Józef Piłsudski and in 1928–35 served as a deputy to the Sejm (Poland's parliament), representing the Piłsudskiite Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government.
After Piłsudski's death in 1935, Mackiewicz criticized the ruling elite and in 1939 was imprisoned for 17 days at the Bereza Kartuska detention camp.
On 18 September 1939, a day after the Soviet attack on eastern Poland during the Soviet-German Invasion of Poland, he left Poland.
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