Aleksandras Stulginskis

Aleksandras Stulginskis (1885-1969) was the second President of Lithuania (1920-1926).

Aleksandras Stulginskis was born February 26, 1885 in the village of Kutaliai near Taurage, in Lithuania (then Russian Empire).

He withdrew from politics in 1927, and worked on his farm. In 1941 Stulginskis and his wife were arrested by the Soviet NKVD and deported to a gulag in the Krasnoyarsk region, while his wife was deported the Komi area. After the World War II in 1952 he was officially sentenced by the Soviet authorities to 25 years in prison for his anti-sociallist and clerical policies in pre-war Lithuania. Released after Joseph Stalin's death in 1956, he was allowed to emigrate, yet he refused and returned to Lithuanian SSR. Stulginskis settled in Kaunas, where he died on September 22, 1969.

See also

• List of Presidents of Lithuania

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