Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: prague , czech republic - successor: oldrich Cernik ludvik svoboda - death date: 11 february 2004 - predecessor: viliam Siroky antonin novotny - office: prime minister of czechoslovakia acting president of czechoslovakia - term end: 8 april 1968 30 march 1968 - term start: 20 september 1963 22 march 1968 - birth date: 3 april 1923 - name: jozef lenart - nationality: slovak - image: jozef_lenart . jpg - birth place: liptovska porubka , czechoslovakia -lrb- now slovakia -rrb- Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jozef lenart .
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jozef lenart -lrb- 3 april 1923 in liptovska porubka , slovakia -- 11 february 2004 in prague -rrb- was a slovak politician .he graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the bata company .he became a member of the communist party of czechoslovakia -lrb- '' ksC '' -rrb- and of the communist party of slovakia -lrb- '' kss '' -rrb- .lenart was a member of the federal parliament -lrb- whose name changed several times -rrb- from 1960 to 1990 , and was speaker of the slovak national council 1962 -- 1963 .he was also a member from 1971 to -lrb- ? -rrb-1990 .he served as prime minister of czechoslovakia between 1963 and 1968 .although ethnically slovak , he became a czech citizen after the country had split in 1993 .on the basis of insufficient evidence , on 23 september 2002 lenart was acquitted of treason charges -lrb- along with his co-defendant milos jakes -rrb- , related to his handling -lrb- or lack thereof -rrb- of the prague spring events in 1968 .he was accused of attending a meeting at the soviet embassy in prague on the day after the 1968 warsaw pact invasion , planning to establish a new '' workers and farmers '' ' government .jozef lenart was one of the most resilient figures in czechoslovakia 's communist hierarchy , occupying one post or another in the leadership for no less than a quarter of the century .that achievement was all the more remarkable because his career at the top straddled a succession of regimes and several abrupt changes in policy .