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Wincenty Witos

1874 - 1945

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Wincenty Witos (Polish pronunciation: [vinˈt͡sɛntɨ ˈvitɔs]; 21 or 22 January 1874 – 31 October 1945) was a Polish statesman, prominent member and leader of the Polish People's Party (PSL), who served three times as the Prime Minister of Poland in the 1920s. He was a member of the Polish People's Party from 1895, and the 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wincenty Witos is the 10,703rd most popular politician (down from 9,381st in 2019), the 642nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 568th in 2019) and the 164th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wincenty Witos ranks 10,703 out of 19,576Before him are Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Yekaterina Furtseva, Pierre Buyoya, Hamadi Jebali, and Konstantinos Paspatis. After him are Margherita Aldobrandini, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Patrick Henry, Juan José Torres, Theodoric Strabo, and Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Wincenty Witos ranks 102Before him are Rosa Albach-Retty, Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, George Tupou II, Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Charles Despiau, and Photius II of Constantinople. After him are Ricardo Flores Magón, Gustave Whitehead, Constantin Ion Parhon, Bill Holland, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov. Among people deceased in 1945, Wincenty Witos ranks 207Before him are Naoemon Shimizu, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Rash Behari Bose, John Basilone, Hans von Dohnanyi, and Yakov Protazanov. After him are Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Roberto Farinacci, Agnes Baden-Powell, Alfred Delp, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Óscar R. Benavides.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wincenty Witos ranks 642 out of 1,694Before him are Philip I, Duke of Pomerania (1515), Julius von Sachs (1832), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Heinrich George (1893), Walther Wever (1887), and Hugo von Pohl (1855). After him are Zofia Posmysz (1923), Abraham Robinson (1918), Leszek Miller (1946), Yehuda Ashlag (1886), Szymon Marciniak (1981), and Jan Sarkander (1576).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Wincenty Witos ranks 164Before him are Mieczysław Rakowski (1926), Władysław Czartoryski (1828), Józef Wybicki (1747), Lothar Bisky (1941), Józef Haller (1873), and Hugo von Pohl (1855). After him are Leszek Miller (1946), Yehuda Ashlag (1886), Hanna Suchocka (1946), Henryk Jabłoński (1909), Bolesław II the Horned (1217), and Vyacheslav Kebich (1936).