Adam Piłsudski (
Zalavas
Zalavas ( pl, Zułowo, be, Зулаў, Zulaŭ) is a small village in Švenčionys district municipality, Lithuania. It is located on the Mera river near the Lithuanian state border with Belarus. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, it h ...
, 25 September 1869 - 16 December 1935) was a member of the
Senate of Poland
The Senate ( pl, Senat) is the upper house of the Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm. The history of the Polish Senate stretches back over 500 years; it was one of the first constituent bodies of a bicameral parliament in Europ ...
, vice president of
Wilno
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, brother of the famous
Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...
. He was honored with the Officer's Cross of the
Order of Polonia Restituta
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, awar ...
.
1869 births
1935 deaths
People from Švenčionys District Municipality
People from Sventsyansky Uyezd
Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government politicians
Senators of the Second Polish Republic (1935–1938)
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Burials at Rasos Cemetery
Adam
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