Antanas Smetona

Antanas Smetona
1st President of Lithuania
In office 19 December 1926 – 15 June 1940
Prime Minister	Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys
Preceded by	Aleksandras Stulginskis (acting)
Succeeded by	Antanas Merkys (acting, de facto) Vytautas Landsbergis (in 1990, as Chairman of the Supreme Council)
In office 4 April 1919 – 19 June 1920
Prime Minister	Pranas Dovydaitis Mykolas Sleževičius Ernestas Galvanauskas
Succeeded by	Aleksandras Stulginskis
1st Chairman of the Council of Lithuania
In office 23 September 1917 – 4 April 1919
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Stasys Šilingas
Personal details
Born	(1874-08-10)10 August 1874 Užulėnis, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	9 January 1944(1944-01-09) (aged 69) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Resting place	All Souls Cemetery, Chardon, Ohio
Political party	Lithuanian Democratic Party (1902–1907) Party of National Progress (before 1924) Lithuanian Nationalist Union (1924–1940)
Spouse	Sofija Chodakauskaitė-Smetonienė (1885–1968)
Children	Marija Danutė (1905–1992) Birutė (1906–1909) Julius Rimgaudas (1913–1974)
Alma mater	University of Saint Petersburg
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Antanas Smetona (Lithuanian: [ɐnˈtǎːnɐs sʲmʲɛtoːˈnɐ] ^ⓘ; 10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and politician who served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1926 until the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940. Referred to as the "Leader of the Nation" during his presidency,^[1] Smetona is recognised as one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II, and a prominent ideologists of Lithuanian nationalism and the movement for national revival.^[2]