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Wincenty Witos

Wincenty Witos (1874 - 1945) was leader of the Polish Peasant Party and periodically premier of Poland during the early 1920s. In 1926, his government was overthrown by an armed May coup d'etat led by Jozef Pilsudski. Witos was then imprisoned but escaped to Czechoslovakia only to be imprisoned again in 1939 by the invading Germans.

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|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
Wladyslaw Sikorski | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Prime Minister of Poland
1923 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Wladyslaw Grabski

|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
Aleksander Skrzynski | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Prime Minister of Poland
1926 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Kazimierz Bartel

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