Stepan Vytvytskyi

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Stepan Vytvytskyi
Степан Витвицький
2nd President of Ukraine in exile
In office
17 January, 1954 – 9 October, 1965
Preceded byAndriy Livytskyi
Succeeded byMykola Livytskyi
Personal details
Born(1884-03-13)13 March 1884
Austro-Hungary
(now within Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)
Died9 October 1965(1965-10-09) (aged 81)
New York City, U.S.
NationalityUkrainian
SpouseMelaniya Vytvytska

Stepan Porfyrovych Vytvytskyi (Ukrainian: Степан Порфирович Витвицький; 13 March 1884 – 9 October 1965), also known as Dr. Stepan Wytwycky, was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, and journalist. He was the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954–1965).

Biography

Stepan Vytvytskyi was born on 13 March 1884, in the village of

Lviv and Vienna Universities. During his years as a student, Vytvytskyi was the head of Academic Hromada in Lviv and the organization Sich in Vienna. In 1910, he began his practice as a lawyer in Drohobych. In 1914, he entered the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
military organization. From 1915-1918, he was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Dila, and an editor on the Svoboda newspaper, both being based in Lviv.

While being a member of the Ukrainian National-Democratical Party (UNDP) in October 1918, he was elected as a secretary of the Ukrainian National Rada of the

Tsentralna Rada and the governmental secretary of foreign affairs of the UPR. As a secretary of the Ukrainian National Rada, he was a member of the delegation of the ZUNR at the Worker's Congress of Ukraine in Kyiv
, and a delegation member of the act of merging the ZUNR and UPR on January 22, 1919.

Since October 1919, he was the

Galicia by Poland
, and help with the re-establishment of its independence.

In 1924, he continued his lawyer practice in Drohobych. From 1935−1939, he was elected to the Polish Sejm from the Drohobycz district. With the occupation of Galicia by Bolsheviks in 1939, he left Drohobych and emigrated to the west. In 1945, he was elected as the co-speaker of the Central Ukrainian Emigration Commission in Germany. After the death of Andriy Livytskyi in 1954, Stepan Vytvytskyi was elected as the president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. He died in New York City on October 9, 1965, and was buried at the cemetery of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

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Preceded by President of Ukraine in exile
1954–1965 		Succeeded by
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