Gabriel Narutowicz

Gabriel Narutowicz , (March 17 1865 –  December 16 1922) was the first elected President of the Republic of Poland.Born into a Lithuanian noble family in Telšiai in Lithuania, then under the Russian Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Narutowicz had been a professor at the Polytechnical Institute in Zurich Switzerland, since 1908, and had directed the construction of many hydroelectric plants in Western Europe. After Poland regained its independence in 1918, he became involved in the national politics of Poland, and served as the Minister of Public Works, 1920-1921, and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922.
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