Kazys Bizauskas
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Kazys Bizauskas ⓘ (14 February 1893,[1][2] Pāvilosta, Courland Governorate – 26 June 1941) was a Lithuanian statesman, diplomat, author, and one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania.
Bizauskas first emerged as a writer while attending secondary school in
In 1920 Bizauskas was elected to the Constituent Assembly as a representative of the Christian Democratic Party. During the summer of 1920 he served as secretary-general at the negotiations that led to the formalization of the
He held a number of diplomatic posts during the 1920s and 1930s, serving as Lithuanian envoy to the
Bizauskas was transported to a Soviet prison in Minsk in June 1941; he was shot by the NKVD along with several thousand other prisoners on 26 June 1941.
References
- "Bizauskas, Kazimieras". Encyclopedia Lituanica I: 372-373. (1970-1978). Ed. Simas Sužiedėlis. Boston, Massachusetts: Juozas Kapočius. LCCN 74-114275.