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aleksander skrzyński władysław sikorski władysław sikorski władysław grabski kazimierz bartel władysław grabski władysław grabski antoni ponikowski 31 october 1945 wierzchosławice , then austro-hungary , now poland stanisław wojciechowski kraków , poland 200px polish people 's party `` piast '' farmer 22 january 1874 prime second republic of poland prime minister of poland 10th prime minister minister of the second republic of poland prime minister of of poland 5th prime minister of the second republic of poland poland 13th prime minister of the 10 may 1926 18 may 1923 24 july 1920 wincenty witos.png wincenty witos
 14 may 1926 19 december 1923 19 september 1921 wincenty witos
wincenty witos

wincenty witos -lrb- ; 22 january 1874 - 31 october 1945 -rrb- was a prominent member of the polish people 's party -lrb- psl -rrb- from 1895 , and leader of its `` piast '' faction from 1913 .
he was a member of parliament in the galician sejm from 1908 -- 1914 , and an envoy to `` reichsrat '' in vienna from 1911 to 1918 .
witos was also a leader of polish liquidation committee -lrb- -rrb- in 1918 , head of the piast party , and member of parliament in the polish sejm from 1919-1920 .
he served thrice as the premier of poland , in 1920-1921 , 1923 -lrb- chjeno-piast -rrb- , and 1926 .
in 1926 the third witos government was overthrown by the may coup d'état led by józef piłsudski .
witos had been one of the leaders of the opposition to the sanacja-government as head of centrolew -lrb- 1929 -- 1930 -rrb- and co-founded the people 's party .
having been imprisoned shortly thereafter and for a time living in exile in czechoslovakia from 1933 , he returned to poland in 1939 only to be imprisoned again by the invading germans .
in ill health by 1945 , he became one of the vice-chairmen of the state national council -lrb- -rrb- after world war ii .
in 1945-46 the people 's party was reorganized and taken over by stanisław mikołajczyk .
