Henryk Jabłoński

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Henryk Jabłoński
Chairman of the Council of State of the People's Republic of Poland
In office
28 March 1972 – 6 November 1985
Preceded byJózef Cyrankiewicz
Succeeded byWojciech Jaruzelski
Personal details
Born27 December 1909
Stary Waliszew, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died27 January 2003 (aged 93)
Warsaw, Poland
Political partyPolish Socialist Party
Polish United Workers' Party
ProfessionHistorian

Henryk Jan Jabłoński (Polish pronunciation:

People's Republic of Poland
between 1972 and 1985.

Life and career

Jabłoński was born in Stary Waliszew in the Warsaw Governorate of Congress Poland. From 1931, he was a member of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). During World War II he fought in the battle of Narvik (Norway) and then joined the French Resistance. In 1945 Jabłoński become a member of the State National Council (KRN), and during the years 1946 and 1948 he had high functions in the PPS (chairman of Central State Committee and its vice-leader). He approved joining the PPS with the Polish Workers' Party (PPR, Polska Partia Robotnicza).

From 1947 to 1972, he was a deputy to the

Warsaw University (from 1952 member of Polish Academy of Sciences – PAN). Between 1948 and 1981, Henryk Jabłoński was in the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party
(KC PZPR).

In 1972, on the initiative of

ZBoWiD, the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy, an organisation of war veterans. In 1985 he was replaced as head of state by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. His wife Jadwiga Jabłońska
died in 1999.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Chairman of the Polish Council of State

1972–1985
Succeeded by