Jan Paweł Łuszczewski (26 June 1764 in Skotniki, Masovian Voivodeship – 4 July 1812 in Warsaw) was a Polish politician who was an envoy to the

Four-Year Sejm The Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm ( Polish: ''Sejm Wielki'' or ''Sejm Czteroletni''; Lithuanian: ''Didysis seimas'' or ''Ketverių metų seimas'') was a Sejm (parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that was held in W ...

and later the Minister for Interior and Religious Affairs in the

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from 5 October 1807 until his death. He was also a

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. From 1785-95, he was a secretary to the king,

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, until his forced abdication. In 1788-89, he acted as a secretary for the

, at which he was also the secretary for the confederated Crown provinces, and from 1790, the envoy from the Sochaczew Land to said Sejm. As a member of the

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, he was a supporter of the

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in debates. On 29 April 1791, he received honorary citizenship of the city of Warsaw. From 1800, he was a member of the

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, to whom he left his political materials of the

. In 1806, he declared himself to be a supporter of

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. As a consequence of this, he was appointed the next year to be a minister of the Napoleonic duchy. He was supported by the king Frederick August I and by the French ambassador

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. In 1807, he received the

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and in 1809, became a chevalier of the Orders of St. Stanislaus and of

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. He was married twice, firstly to Aleksandra Cieciszowska, with whom he had a daughter Ewa and three sons: Adam, Michał, and Wacław; and then to Ewa Orsetti, with whom he had a daughter Paulina. He is buried beside his first wife in Warsaw.

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