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Jānis Čakste
Jānis Čakste was a Latvian lawyer and statesman who was the first president of Latvia, serving from 1922 until his death in 1927. A member of the Russian State Duma before the First World War, he chaired the People's Council that proclaimed Latvian independence in November 1918 and then the Constitutional Assembly that adopted the Satversme of 1922.
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