Stasys Lozoraitis (junior), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stasys Lozoraitis (junior)

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1924

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1994

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Stasys Lozoraitis (junior)

  • Stasys Lozoraitis (August 2, 1924 in Berlin – June 13, 1994 in Washington, D.C.) was a Lithuanian diplomat.
  • He was a son of Stasys Lozoraitis (1898–1983) and brother of Kazys Lozoraitis. Lozoraitis studied law at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1944 to 1948.
  • He worked at the Lithuanian legation to the Holy See in Rome from 1943.
  • In 1970, after death of Stasys Girdvainis, Lozoraitis became the chargĂ© d’affaires in Rome.
  • On November 15, 1987, Lozoraitis succeeded Stasys Backis as the leader of Lithuania's diplomatic service in exile, the position held by his father until 1983.
  • The diplomatic service, based in Washington, D.C., was representation of interwar independent Lithuania and did not recognize authority of the Lithuanian SSR, a republic of the Soviet Union.In March 1990, Lithuania declared restoration of its independence.
  • On September 6, 1991, following August Putsch in Moscow and international recognition of independent Lithuania, Lozoraitis resigned the diplomatic service in favor of the national government established in Vilnius.
  • In December 1991, he was appointed as the new government's chief diplomat to the United States, where he re-established the embassy.
  • He was a candidate in the Lithuanian presidential election of February 1993, gathering 38.9% of vote and losing to Algirdas Brazauskas.
  • In May 1993, just a few months after the election, Brazauskas recalled Lozoraitis as ambassador to the U.S.
  • despite criticism of politicizing the issue.
  • In late 1993, Lozoraitis was appointed as the ambassador to Italy.Lozoraitis died of kidney failure at Georgetown University Hospital.
  • He was buried in Putnam, Connecticut, in a Lithuanian Roman Catholic cemetery; he was reburied in Petrašiunai Cemetery in Kaunas in 1999.
  • The same year he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Cross of Vytis.
  • Documentary Vilties prezidentas (The President of Hope) was produced by Vytautas V.
  • Landsbergis in 1996.

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