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    Jānis Kristaps Čakste (14 September 1859 – 14 March 1927) was a Latvian politician and lawyer who served as the first head of an independent Latvian state...
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    assumes the duties of the president. For example, after the death of Jānis Čakste, Pauls Kalniņš, the speaker of the Saeima, was acting president briefly...
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  • 2022. "Valentino dies". History.com. Retrieved February 15, 2015. "Jānis Čakste" (in Latvian). March 12, 2021. "AUSTRIA: Death for Freedom - TIME". November...
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    the night of 15–16 May 1934, Ulmanis, with the support of Minister of War Jānis Balodis, proclaimed a state of war and dissolved all political parties and...
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    independent country at the now National Theatre of Latvia. It chose Jānis Čakste as the President of the Council and Kārlis Ulmanis as the Prime Minister...
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    (Routledge, 2013). Rutkis, Jānis, ed. (1967). Latvia: Country & People. Stockholm: Latvian National Foundation. OCLC 457313. Turlajs, Jānis (2012). Latvijas vēstures...
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    approaching Latvia, the Tautas Padome sent Jānis Čakste and Zemgals abroad to represent Latvian interests. Cakste, Zemgals and several other people from the...
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    Satversme, which is still in effect to this day. The Speaker of Assembly was Jānis Čakste, who later became the first President of Latvia. The assembly functioned...
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  • general Jānis Bulis (born 1950), Latvian Roman Catholic bishop Jānis Čakste (1859–1927), Latvian politician and lawyer, former President of Latvia Jānis Cimze...
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    Kārlis Balodis, economist Konstantīns Čakste, legal theorist and LCP Chairman, son of Latvian President Jānis Čakste Jānis Endzelīns, linguist Karlis Kaufmanis...
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    established in Petrograd, it was run by future politicians Vilis Olavs, Jānis Čakste and Arveds Bergs. Committee organized refugee housing, organized 54 schools...
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    a two parliamentary period. In the elections with three candidates, Jānis Čakste was re-elected as the President of Latvia. The first ballot failed to...
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    Council (Tautas Padome) and the provisional government are established. Jānis Čakste becomes the chairman of the People's Council, while Kārlis Ulmanis becomes...
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    the two World Wars (beginning with the term of the Latvian president Jānis Čakste through the term of the last interwar president Kārlis Ulmanis). The...
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    Jānis Čakste; the organizer of the Latvian Riflemen Battalions, the former Minister of Agriculture Jānis Goldmanis and the Minister of Justice Jānis Pauļuks...
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  • Chairman (1918–1920) Republic of Latvia Presidents (complete list) – Jānis Čakste, Acting President (1918–1922), President (1922–1927) Gustavs Zemgals...
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    states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, led respectively by Jaan Poska, Jānis Čakste and Augustinas Voldemaras, also participated in the conference, and successfully...
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    Saeima approved the Statute of the Bank of Latvia, signed by President Jānis Čakste on 2 July. The bank was headed by a council and board. The Council consisted...
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  • 1871) March 11 – Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general (b. 1869) March 14 – Jānis Čakste, Latvian politician, 1st President of Latvia (b. 1859) March 16 – Marie...
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    independent country, or an autonomous entity, in Kurdistan.  Latvia Jānis Čakste Attempted to gain recognition of the independence of Latvia.  Lebanon...
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    democratic Republic of Latvia. Konstantīns Čakste [lv], the son of the 1st President of Latvia, Jānis Čakste, was elected as the chairman with deputies...
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    Council with 60 members. Their leader was the future President of Latvia Jānis Čakste, who was appointed by the Russian Provisional Government to be the Commissar...
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    Relander and President of Latvia Jānis Čakste during Relander's 1926 official visit to Latvia. In the background, the Foreign Minister of Finland Eemil...
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  • 1926  Guatemala President Antigua Guatemala  Guatemala Heart attack Jānis Čakste 1927  Latvia President Riga  Latvia Charles Coghlan 1927  Southern Rhodesia...
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  • (Demokrātiskais centrs). The party is led by the later presidents of Latvia, Jānis Čakste and Gustavs Zemgals. 1934: The party is banned. In exile it is continued...
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  • Löfström Martin Wetzer Hjalmar Frisell Hans Kalm Jānis Čakste Kārlis Ulmanis Oskars Kalpaks † Jānis Balodis Konstantin Päts Andres Larka Johan Laidoner...
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    resistance movement, becoming its leader after the arrest of Konstantīns Čakste [lv] by the Gestapo. In a meeting of the LCC on 8 September 1944, Kalniņš...
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  • (1901–1950) – poet Jānis Čakste (1859–1927) – first President of Latvia Roberts Dambītis (1881–1957) – general and politician Jānis Dāliņš (1904–1978)...
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  • Andrejs Pumpurs gravestone 1929 Kārlis Zāle In Lielie Cemetery Monument to Jānis Čakste In Meža Cemetery Monument to Lielais Kristaps Freedom Monument 1935 Kārlis...
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    Esplanade Park in Riga, in which the Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly Jānis Čakste presented orders to the first 288 Knights of the Order. These 288 Knights...
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