Stanisław Car
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Stanisław Car (26 April 1882 – 18 June 1938) was a Polish politician, lawyer, Marshal of the Sejm, deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice.
Life
[edit]Born on 26 April 1882 into a Warsaw middle-class family, he studied law at the University of Warsaw (until 1905), and then at the University of Odessa, where he graduated in 1907. In 1908–1911, Car worked as a clerk in a court, opening then his own legal office. In 1915, he became a judge, and a member of the Commission of Civil Law of the Provisional Council of State.
For most of the 1920s, Car worked in his office. In 1924, he opened a magazine of Warsaw lawyers, “Palestra”, of which he was the first editor in chief. After the May Coup of 1926, he returned to politics. A close associate of Jozef Pilsudski, he remained loyal to the Polish Marshal until Pilsudski's death in May 1935.
Car was a prominent member of the pro-Sanacja party Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms (BBWR). He co-wrote the April Constitution of Poland.
Stanislaw Car died in Warsaw on 18 June 1938.
Awards
[edit]- Order of the White Eagle, posthumously on June 20, 1938,
- Great Ribbon of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1935,
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (May 2, 1922),
- Officer Cross of the Legion of Honour (France).
- 1882 births
- 1938 deaths
- Politicians from Warsaw
- Politicians from Warsaw Governorate
- Government ministers of Poland
- Marshals of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic
- Deputy Marshals of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic
- Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1930–1935)
- Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1935–1938)
- Polish politician stubs