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Polish politician, three times the Prime Minister of Poland (1874–1945)

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President: Stanisław Wojciechowski
Preceded by: Aleksander Skrzyński
Succeeded by: Kazimierz Bartel
Deputy: Stanisław Głąbiński , Wojciech Korfanty
Chief of state: Józef Piłsudski
Born: 22 January 1874, Wierzchosławice , then Austro-Hungary , now Poland
Died: 31 October 1945 (1945-10-31) (aged 71), Kraków , Poland
Party: Polish People's Party "Piast"
Profession: Farmer

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Wincenty Witos ( Polish pronunciation: [vinˈt͡sɛntɨ ˈvitɔs]; 21 or 22 January 1874 – 31 October 1945) was a Polish statesman, prominent member and leader of the Polish People's Party (PSL), who served three times as the Prime Minister of Poland in the 1920s.

He was a member of the Polish People's Party from 1895, and the leader of its "Piast" faction from 1913. He was a member of parliament in the Galician Sejm from 1908–1914, and an envoy to Reichsrat in Vienna from 1911 to 1918. Witos was also a leader of Polish Liquidation Committee (Polish: Polska Komisja Likwidacyjna) in 1918, head of the Piast party, and member of parliament in the Polish Sejm from 1919–1920.