Stanisław Wojciechowski
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Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and scholar who served as President of Poland between 1922 and 1926, during the Second Polish Republic.
Wojciechowski c. 1920s
President Wojciechowski in Gniezno to tour the Exhibitions of Agriculture and Commerce, 1925
Wojciechowski with General Mariusz Zaruski, mid 1920s
President Wojciechowski's handwritten description of his meeting with Piłsudski on the Poniatowski Bridge during the May Coup in 1926
Ignacy Mościcki
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Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving president in Polish history. Mościcki was the president of Poland when
Stanisław Wojciechowski
…Piłsudski as the new Minister of Military Affairs. On 31 May 1926, the National Assembly nominated Piłsudski to be president, but he declined. Eventually Ignacy Mościcki became the new president; Piłsudski, however, wielded much greater de facto power than his military ministry nominally gave him. Following the resignation…
Ignacy Mościcki
Mościcki bestows the buława (the Marshal of Poland's baton) on Edward Rydz-Śmigły in 1936
First family of Poland (1930)
The former graves of Mościcki (left) and of his daughter Helena and son-in-law Aleksander Bobkowski (right) in Versoix.