Ruler · 1919 – 2010

Ryszard Kaczorowski

Lived 1919 – 2010; statesperson, politician. President of the Republic of Poland (Poland), 1989 – 1990.

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Lived: 1919 – 2010; 91 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Poland
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of the Republic of Poland

Poland · the 3rd of 11 dated reigns · 1986 – 2025

Kazimierz Sabbat1986 – 1989

Wojciech Jaruzelski1989 – 1990

Ryszard Kaczorowski1989 – 1990

Lech Wałęsa1990 – 1995

Aleksander Kwaśniewski1995 – 2005

Lech Kaczyński2005 – 2010

5 after

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1989 – 1990 · 1 year · came to it aged 70

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat, and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and the election of Lech Wałęsa as the first democratically elected president of Poland since before the World War II.

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