Jonas Staugaitis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jonas Staugaitis

President of Lithuania

Date of Birth: 20-May-1868

Place of Birth: Omentiškiai, Congress Poland, Lithuania

Date of Death: 18-Jan-1952

Profession: politician

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jonas Staugaitis (pronunciation ; May 20, 1868, Omentiškiai, Suwalki Governorate – January 18, 1952, Kaunas) was the acting President of Lithuania during the December 1926 coup d'état.
He was formally elected for a few hours as the Speaker of the Seimas; as the highest-ranked official, he also became the de jure President of Lithuania.
He renounced the office after the coup d'état was complete. He was a doctor, having studied at the Warsaw University.
In 1919, he was elected to the Seimas (Lithuanian parliament) as a member of the Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union.
On June 2, 1926, he was elected the head of the Seimas. He is buried in the Petrašiunai cemetery in Kaunas.