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Leonas Bistras
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Leonas Bistras (b. October 20, 1890, Liepaja — d. October 17, 1971 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian politician, journalist, translator, philosopher and professor. He had studied medicine also.
Bistras was elected to the 2nd Lithuanian Seimas representing the Lithuanian Christian Democrats Party. He was also elected as Chairman of Seimas. In the 9th and 10th Minister Cabinet of Lithuania, he was Minister of Education. After Vytautas Petrulis' cabinet resigned, he took office of Prime Minister of Lithuania and Minister of Land Defense in the 12th cabinet, from April 14, 1926 was also Minister of Foreign Affairs.
After a coup d'etat at the end of 1926, he was appointed as Minister of Education, and left cabinet after the 3rd Seimas was released. He returned to the Cabinet of Ministers after Lithuania lost Klaipėda Region in 1939, and in the 20th cabinet was Minister of Education and refused to take the Minister of Foreign Affairs office.
On July 11, 1940 he was arrested and sent to Siberia, returning to Lithuania in 1945. In 1950 he was arrested and sent to Siberia again. He returned to Lithuania again in 1956. As the Soviets did not grant him a pension, he lived on the mercy of other people in Kaunas, where he died three (3) days before his 81st birthday.
(Lithuanian) Bio at Lithuanian Seimas website
| Preceded by Vytautas Petrulis |
Prime Minister of Lithuania 25 September 1925 – 15 June 1926 |
Succeeded by Mykolas Sleževičius |
| Prime Ministers of Lithuania | ||
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Prime Ministers |
Augustinas Voldemaras | Mykolas Sleževičius | Pranas Dovydaitis | Mykolas Sleževičius | Ernestas Galvanauskas | Kazys Grinius | Ernestas Galvanauskas | Antanas Tumėnas | Vytautas Petrulis | Leonas Bistras | Mykolas Sleževičius | Augustinas Voldemaras | Juozas Tūbelis | Vladas Mironas | Jonas Černius | Antanas Merkys |
| LSSR Premiers |
Mečislovas Gedvilas | Motiejus Šumauskas | Juozas Maniušis | Ringaudas Songaila | Vytautas Sakalauskas |
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| Prime Ministers |
Kazimira Prunskienė | Albertas Šimėnas | Gediminas Vagnorius | Aleksandras Abišala | Bronislovas Lubys | Adolfas Šleževičius | Laurynas Mindaugas Stankevičius | Gediminas Vagnorius | Irena Degutienė* | Rolandas Paksas | Irena Degutienė* | Andrius Kubilius | Rolandas Paksas | Eugenijus Gentvilas* | Algirdas Brazauskas | Zigmantas Balčytis* | Gediminas Kirkilas |
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