px|nationality predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place profession party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end birth_name restingplace
russian georgy lvov '' of the council of people 's commissars -rrb- office abolished '' -lrb- vladimir lenin as chairman 11 june 1970 -lrb- aged 89 -rrb- simbirsk , russia new york city lawyer , politician socialist revolutionary -lrb- trudovik parliamentary breakaway group -rrb- 2nd minister-chairman of the russian provisional government 2 may 1881 21 july 1917 alexander kerensky loc 24416.jpg alexander kerensky
 7 1917 old style -rsb- november 1917 -lsb- 8 july -- 26 october alexander fyodorovich kerensky putney vale cemetery , london
alexander kerensky

alexander fyodorovich kerensky -lrb- , ; 2 may 1881 -- 11 june 1970 -rrb- was a russian lawyer and politician , who served as the second minister-chairman of the russian provisional government in july -- november 1917 .
a leader of the moderate-socialist trudoviks faction of the socialist revolutionary party , kerensky is a key figure of the russian revolution .
after the february revolution that deposed of tsar nicholas ii , kerensky served as minister of justice in georgy lvov 's post-imperial and democratic provisional government .
in may he became minister of war .
in july he succeeded lvov as minister-chairman .
on 7 november , his government was overthrown by the vladimir lenin-led bolsheviks in the october revolution .
he spent the remainder of his life in exile , dying in new york city at the age of 89 .
