Lech Kaczyński

Polish politician, democratic oppositionist, ministry of justice, president of Poland (1949–2010)

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Lived 1949–2010, aged 61

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1949–2010
Aged 61

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Updated 2026-05-29

Polish president from 2005 until his death in the 2010 Smolensk plane crash. Before that, he ran Warsaw as mayor and held various judicial positions in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was a Polish politician who served as the 4th president of Poland from 2005 to 2010, when he died in the Smolensk air disaster. Earlier, he served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 to 2005. Prior to these tenures, Kaczyński served as President of the Supreme Audit Office from 1992 to 1995 and later Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet from 2000 until his dismissal in July 2001.

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