Jānis Kristaps Čakste was a Latvian politician and lawyer who served as the first head of an independent Latvian state as the Chairman of the People's Council (1918–1920), the Speaker of the Constitutional Assembly (1920–1922), and as the first President of Latvia (1922–1927).
Čakste in 1926
Jānis Čakste in 1906
Čakste and President of Finland Lauri Kristian Relander during Relander's 1926 official visit to Latvia. In the background, the Foreign Minister of Finland Eemil Nestor Setälä to the right.
Čakste's Memorial in Forest Cemetery, Riga
The president of Latvia is head of state and commander-in-chief of the National Armed Forces of the Republic of Latvia.
President of Latvia
Latvian president Čakste (left) meeting president of Finland Lauri Kristian Relander in 1922
Guntis Ulmanis speaking from the Saeima podium during the parliamentary foreign policy debates in 2014
President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on 7 June 2006 after an address to a joint meeting of Congress held in her honor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington