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    Maciej Rataj (19 February 1884 – 21 June 1940) was a Polish politician and writer. Born in the village of Chłopy, near Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), on 19...
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  • Rataj is a Slavic surname. Notable people with the surname include: Igor Rataj (born 1973), Slovak ice hockey player Maciej Rataj (1884–1940), Polish...
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    served as acting president: Maciej Rataj who did so twice, Bronisław Komorowski, Bogdan Borusewicz, and Grzegorz Schetyna. Rataj, Komorowski, and Schetyna...
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  • scientist Maciej Płażyński (1958–2010), Polish politician and marshal of the Sejm Maciej Rataj (1884–1940), Polish politician and writer Maciej Świątkowski...
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    to serve on two occasions as Polish head of state since 1918, after Maciej Rataj. On 25 May 2015, Komorowski conceded the presidency of Poland to the...
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    Narutowicz by Eligiusz Niewiadomski on 16 December 1922, Marshal of the Sejm Maciej Rataj, who served briefly as acting head of state after the assassination,...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    Political offices Preceded by Maciej Rataj President of Poland 1926–1939 Succeeded by Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski as President of the Polish Republic...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    Pawiak to the place of execution near Palmiry. Among the victims were: Maciej Rataj (politician, former Marshal of the Sejm and former acting President of...
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    1922, the Marshal of the Sejm (the Sejm being the Polish parliament), Maciej Rataj, appointed Sikorski prime minister. From 18 December 1922, to 26 May...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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  • (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    their reactions (Wincenty Witos voicing criticism of Piłsudski, but Maciej Rataj and Stanisław Thugutt being supportive), while Roman Dmowski's National...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    film about the Solidarity movement. The main character, a young worker Maciej Tomczyk (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz) is involved in the anti-Communist labor movement...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    since taking office. According to the Constitution the Sejm Marshal Maciej Rataj became Acting President of the Republic of Poland and organised new elections...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    ousted President Wojciechowski, Sejm Marshal and now Acting President Maciej Rataj (Polish People's Party "Piast") and Senate Marshal Wojciech Trąmpczyński...
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    Józef Piłsudski (as Chief of State) Succeeded by Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (acting) Minister of Foreign Affairs In office 28 June 1922 – 14 December...
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    in the Bliżyn forest near Skarżysko-Kamienna. Among those killed were Maciej Rataj, Stefan Bryła, Tadeusz Tański, Mieczysław Niedziałkowski, Janusz Kusociński...
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    parliamentary traditions established before the time of the partitions. Maciej Rataj emphatically paid tribute to this with the phrase: "There is Poland there...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    Bartel was appointed by Marshal of the Sejm and the acting head of state Maciej Rataj as the prime minister of the Second Polish Republic, but Bartel later...
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    mediated by Archbishop Aleksander Kakowski and Marshal of the Sejm Maciej Rataj. They brought no change to the stalemate. On 14 May, the Polish Socialist...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    (1918–1939) Józef Piłsudski Gabriel Narutowicz Maciej Rataj (Acting) Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (Acting) Ignacy Mościcki Polish government-in-exile...
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    Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Prime Minister Wincenty Witos and Minister Maciej Rataj held a meeting in the city. Within interwar Poland, the city remained...
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