Aleksandras Stulginskis
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Aleksandras Stulginskis (February 26, 1885 – September 22, 1969) was Lithuania's second President (1920-1926).
Following a military coup led by his predecessor, President Antanas Smetona, that had brought down Stulginskis' replacement, Kazys Grinius, many hours later in 1926.
After Smetonkis' brief formal assumption of the Presidency, the coup returned him to office. He began his theological studies in Kaunas and then continued in Innsbruck, Austria.
Nonetheless, he didn't want to be a priest and transferred to the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Halle, rather than becoming a priest.
He graduated in 1913 and returned to Lithuania.
He began working as a farmer.
In the Lithuanian press, he wrote several papers on agronomy.
He began to publish journals named Ukininkas ("Farmer") and Ukininko kalendorius ("Farmer's Calendar" in 1918. He migrated to Vilnius after the First World War.
He was one of the foundings of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and president of its Central Committee in 1917.
In reply to the question of whether the Lithuanian statehood was recognized by the US, Wilson signed the memorandum for President Woodrow Wilson.
Stulginskis was oriented toward the Entente, contrary to Smetona's opinions.
He was one of the Vilnius Conference's co-organizers.
Since being elected to the Council of Lithuania, he has served. He signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on February 16, 1918.
He argued for the political republic in the form of Lithuania's state.
Mindaugas II, the King of Lithuania from 11 July to 2 November 1918, he utterly condemned the idea of monarchy (actually, he was the King of Lithuania from 11 July to 2 November 1918).
In independent Lithuania, Stulginskis was in charge of deploying the national army to protect the country from Bolsheviks and Poles. Many times served as a minister from May 1920 to 1922, he was Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania and hence acting president of the republic.
He was the second President of Lithuania from 1922-1926.
Stulginskis was Speaker of the Seimas 1926-27. In 1927, he resigned from politics and spent his days on his farm.
The Soviet NKVD arrested Stulginskis and his wife in 1941 and deported to a gulag in the Krasnoyarsk area, while his wife was emigrized to the Komi region.
He was sentenced to 25 years in jail by the Soviet authorities in 1952 for his anti-socialist and clerical measures in pre-war Lithuania. Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1956, he was able to migrate, but he refused and returned to Lithuanian SSR.
Stulginskis died in Kaunas, aged 84, the last of the Act of Independence of Lithuania's Signatories.