Leonas Bistras

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Leonas Bistras (October 20, 1890 in Liepāja – October 17, 1971 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian politician, journalist, translator, philosopher and professor. He had studied medicine also.

Bistras was elected to the 2nd Lithuanian Seimas representing the Lithuanian Christian Democrats Party. He was also elected as Chairman of Seimas. In the 9th and 10th Minister Cabinet of Lithuania, he was Minister of Education. After Vytautas Petrulis' cabinet resigned, he took office of Prime Minister of Lithuania and Minister of Land Defense in the 12th cabinet, from April 14, 1926 was also Minister of Foreign Affairs.

After the coup d'état at the end of 1926, he was appointed as Minister of Education, and left cabinet after the 3rd Seimas was released. He returned to the Cabinet of Ministers after Lithuania lost Klaipėda Region in 1939, and in the 20th cabinet was Minister of Education and refused to take the Minister of Foreign Affairs office.

On July 11, 1940, he was arrested, imprisoned in the Kaunas Prison, and sent to Siberia in 1941, returning to Lithuania in 1945. In 1950, he was arrested and sent to Siberia again. He returned to Lithuania again in 1956. As the Soviets did not grant him a pension, he lived on donations from people in Kaunas, where he died three days before his 81st birthday. He was buried in Petrašiūnai Cemetery of Kaunas.

External links

(Lithuanian) Bio at Lithuanian Seimas website

Preceded by Vytautas Petrulis	Prime Minister of Lithuania 25 September 1925 – 15 June 1926	Succeeded by Mykolas Sleževičius

v t e Prime Ministers of Lithuania

1918–1940	Augustinas Voldemaras Mykolas Sleževičius Pranas Dovydaitis Mykolas Sleževičius Ernestas Galvanauskas Kazys Grinius Ernestas Galvanauskas Antanas Tumėnas Vytautas Petrulis Leonas Bistras Mykolas Sleževičius Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys

Lithuanian SSR	Mečislovas Gedvilas Motiejus Šumauskas Juozas Maniušis Ringaudas Songaila Vytautas Sakalauskas

since 1990	Kazimira Prunskienė Albertas Šimėnas Gediminas Vagnorius Aleksandras Abišala Bronislovas Lubys Adolfas Šleževičius Laurynas Stankevičius Gediminas Vagnorius Irena Degutienė Rolandas Paksas Irena Degutienė Andrius Kubilius Rolandas Paksas Eugenijus Gentvilas Algirdas Brazauskas Zigmantas Balčytis Gediminas Kirkilas Andrius Kubilius Algirdas Butkevičius

Italics indicate acting Prime Ministers

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Name	Bistras, Leonas
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Date of birth	October 20, 1890
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Date of death	October 17, 1971
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