Antanas Tumėnas
8th Prime Minister of Lithuania
In office
18 June 1924  27 January 1925
PresidentAleksandras Stulginskis
Preceded byErnestas Galvanauskas
Succeeded byVytautas Petrulis
Personal details
Born13 May 1880
Kurkliečiai, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died8 February 1946 (aged 65)
Bachmanning, Austria
Political partyLithuanian Christian Democratic Party
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University

Antanas Tumėnas (13 May 1880 in Kurkliečiai, near Rokiškis – 8 February 1946 in Bachmanning, Austria) was a Lithuanian politician, teacher, professor of law, judge, 8th Prime Minister of Lithuania, Chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania. He was a member of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party.

Tumėnas was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania and was appointed as chairman of the Constitutional Commission of Lithuania (1922).

Later he was a member of the 1st Seimas. He was the speaker of Seimas in 1923.[1] He participated in creating the law system of the new republic. He was Minister of Justice in the 9th, 10th and 11th Cabinets of Lithuania.

References

  1. "Seimo Pirmininkai - 1920–1940 m. Seimo Pirmininkai" (in Lithuanian). Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas. February 10, 2020.


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