Wincenty Witos
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Prime Minister of Poland 13th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland |
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In office 10 May 1926 – 14 May 1926 |
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| President | Stanisław Wojciechowski |
| Preceded by | Aleksander Skrzyński |
| Succeeded by | Kazimierz Bartel |
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Prime Minister of Poland 10th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland |
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In office 18 May 1923 – 19 December 1923 |
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| President | Stanisław Wojciechowski |
| Preceded by | Władysław Sikorski |
| Succeeded by | Władysław Grabski |
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Prime Minister of Poland 5th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland |
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In office 24 July 1920 – 19 September 1921 |
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| President | Józef Piłsudski (Chief of State) |
| Preceded by | Władysław Grabski |
| Succeeded by | Antoni Ponikowski |
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| Born | 22 January 1874 Wierzchosławice, then Austro-Hungary, now Poland |
| Died | 31 October 1945 (aged 71) Kraków, Poland |
| Political party | Polish People's Party "Piast" |
| Profession | Farmer |
Wincenty Witos (Polish pronunciation: [vinˈt͡sɛntɨ ˈvitɔs]; 22 January 1874 – 31 October 1945) was a prominent member of the Polish People's Party (PSL) from 1895, and leader of its "Piast" faction from 1913. He was a member of parliament in the Galician Sejm from 1908–1914, and an envoy to Reichsrat in Vienna from 1911 to 1918. Witos was also a leader of Polish Liquidation Committee (Polish: Polska Komisja Likwidacyjna) in 1918, head of the Piast party, and member of parliament in the Polish Sejm from 1919-1920.
He served thrice as the premier of Poland, in 1920-1921, 1923 (Chjeno-Piast), and 1926.
In 1926 the third Witos government was overthrown by the May coup d'état led by Józef Piłsudski. Witos had been one of the leaders of the opposition to the Sanacja-government as head of Centrolew (1929–1930) and co-founded the People's Party. Having been imprisoned shortly thereafter and for a time living in exile in Czechoslovakia from 1933, he returned to Poland in 1939 only to be imprisoned again by the invading Germans.
In ill health by 1945, he was nominated one of the vice-chairmen of the State National Council (Polish: Krajowa Rada Narodowa) after World War II. In 1945-46 the People's Party was reorganized and taken over by Stanisław Mikołajczyk.
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