Antanas Smetona

✶August 10, 1874

†January 9, 1944

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Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist, and politician. He served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and later as the authoritarian head of state from 1926 until the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940. Referred to as the "Leader of the Nation" during his presidency, Smetona is recognised as one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II, and a prominent ideologist of Lithuanian nationalism and the movement for national revival.

first President of Lithuania from 4 April 1919 until 19 June 1920 (1874-1944)

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Biography from the article Antanas Smetona on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.