How to Pronounce Rapolas Skipitis
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Jan 31, 1887 Died on 23 Feb 1976 (aged 89)
Lithuanian jurist
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About Rapolas Skipitis
- Rapolas Skipitis (31 January 1887 – 23 February 1976) was a Lithuanian attorney and politician.
- In 1920–1922, he was Minister of the Interior and was later elected to the Second and Third Seimas.
- After the 1926 coup d'état, he chaired the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (1927–1928), Society for the Support of Lithuanians Abroad (1932–1940), and several other Lithuanian organizations.
- He also edited several newspapers, including Ukininko balsas (1925–1928), Trimitas (1927–1928), Namu savininkas and Pasaulio lietuvis (1937–1940).
- At the start of World War II, he retreated to Germany and joined the Lithuanian Activist Front.
- He was reserved the seat of Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government of Lithuania.
- After the war, he settled in Chicago where he was active in Lithuanian American cultural life.
