Lithuanian Statesman, Diplomat, Author. He was one of the twenty signatures of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. While a student in a secondary school, his writing career started when he hand-wrote periodicals called the "Ateitis" or in English "The Future". He studied law at Moscow University from 1913 to 1915. During the Conference of Vilnius, he was elected to the Council of Lithuania as its secretary, and signed the Act of Independence on February 16, 1918. His political career continued as he was elected in 1920 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 Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920. He held a number of diplomatic posts during the 1920s and 1930s, serving as Lithuanian envoy to the Vatican, the United States, the United Kingdom, Latvia, and the Netherlands. After the experience of teaching at a secondary school as a young men, he later authored a secondary school textbooks. He contributed numerous articles to periodicals and co-founded the Society of Bibliophiles and the publishing house Žinija. After the first Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940, he returned to his farm near Ukmergė, where he was arrested and held in prison until Nazi Germany declared war on the USSR on June 22, 1941. He was then transported to a Soviet prison in Minsk in June 1941. As with several thousands others prisoners, the USSR State police or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs shot him on June 26, 1941. His body was never returned to his homeland for burial; this is a cenotaph.
Lithuanian Statesman, Diplomat, Author. He was one of the twenty signatures of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. While a student in a secondary school, his writing career started when he hand-wrote periodicals called the "Ateitis" or in English "The Future". He studied law at Moscow University from 1913 to 1915. During the Conference of Vilnius, he was elected to the Council of Lithuania as its secretary, and signed the Act of Independence on February 16, 1918. His political career continued as he was elected in 1920 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 Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920. He held a number of diplomatic posts during the 1920s and 1930s, serving as Lithuanian envoy to the Vatican, the United States, the United Kingdom, Latvia, and the Netherlands. After the experience of teaching at a secondary school as a young men, he later authored a secondary school textbooks. He contributed numerous articles to periodicals and co-founded the Society of Bibliophiles and the publishing house Žinija. After the first Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940, he returned to his farm near Ukmergė, where he was arrested and held in prison until Nazi Germany declared war on the USSR on June 22, 1941. He was then transported to a Soviet prison in Minsk in June 1941. As with several thousands others prisoners, the USSR State police or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs shot him on June 26, 1941. His body was never returned to his homeland for burial; this is a cenotaph.
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