Rapolas Skipitis
✓ Source-basedfallingLithuanian jurist (1887-1976)
Rapolas Skipitis was a Lithuanian attorney and politician. In 1920-1922, he was Minister of the Interior and was later elected to the Second and Third Seimas.
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![Skipitis (right) with collector Aleksandras Mykolas Račkus (left) who gifted his large numismatic collection to Lithuania during the first Congress of the World Lithuanians in 1935[14]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Ra%C4%8Dkus%2C_Kalvaitis%2C_and_Skipitis.jpeg/500px-Ra%C4%8Dkus%2C_Kalvaitis%2C_and_Skipitis.jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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Rapolas Skipitis was a Lithuanian attorney and politician. In 1920-1922, he was Minister of the Interior and was later elected to the Second and Third Seimas. After the 1926 coup d'état, he chaired the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (1927-1928), Society for the Support of Lithuanians Abroad (1932-1940), and several other Lithuanian organizations. He also edited several newspapers, including Ūkininko balsas (1925-1928), Trimitas (1927-1928), Namų savininkas and Pasaulio lietuvis (1937-1940). At the start of World War II, he retreated to Germany and joined the Lithuanian Activist Front. He was reserved the seat of Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government of Lithuania. After the war, he settled in Chicago where he was active in Lithuanian American cultural life.
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