Salomėja Stakauskaitė (20 May 1890 – 26 September 1971) was a

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n educator and politician. In 1920 she was one of five women elected to the

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, Lithuania's first female parliamentarians. She remained a member of parliament until 1922.

Biography

Stakauskaitė was born in Užliaušiai in 1890. She attended

Liepāja Gymnasium Liepāja Nicolai Gymnasium was a six-year (later seven) gymnasium (high school) in Liepāja (Libau), Courland Governorate, Russian Empire. It was established in 1865 on the basis of a school that traced its roots to 1848. The school was named in ...

from 1902 until 1909, after which she lived with her brother Juozas, a pastor in

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and did pedagogical work. After the establishment of Saulė seminary in Panevėžys, she became a teacher in the institution. She spent two years studying in

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, attending lectures in pedagogy and natural sciences. She returned to Panevėžys during

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and organised courses for teachers. Between 1918 and 1920 she lived in

Jurbarkas Jurbarkas (; Samogitian: ''Jorbarks'', known also by several alternative names) is a city in Tauragė County, in Samogitia, Lithuania. Jurbarkas is located in the historic land of Karšuva. It is on the right-hand shore of the Nemunas at its c ...

, where she worked in the new gymnasium established by the

Saulė Society Saulė Society (; "saulė" means ''sun'') was a Catholic educational society active in Lithuania from 1906 to 1940. It organized and maintained Lithuanian-language schools in the Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire, and later interwar Lithuania. Th ...

. A member of the

Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party (, LKDP) was a Christian-democratic political party in Lithuania. History Russian Empire and Republic of Lithuania A Christian Democratic movement was established in Lithuania in 1890 by a group of Ro ...

, in 1920 she was elected to the Constituent Assembly from constituency III, Raseiniai. She was not re-elected in

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, after which she returned to teaching, working in

Krekenava Krekenava is a town (population 1,375) in Panevėžys district municipality in northern Lithuania, on the bank of Nevėžis. Etymology In the past, the town's place name had a different root than it does now: ''krakin-'' or ''krokin-''. In the ...

and

Šėta Šėta is a small town (''miestelis'') in Kėdainiai District Municipality, Kaunas County, central Lithuania. In 2011, it had a population of 935. It is located by the Obelis river. The flows into Obelis in the center of the town. A dam on Obe ...

. After

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she became a teacher and head librarian at the Secondary School No. 1 in Panevėžys. She died in 1971.Salomėja Stakauskaitė (1890-1971)
Seimas

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stakauskaitė, Salomėja 1890 births Lithuanian schoolteachers Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party politicians Members of the Seimas 20th-century Lithuanian women politicians 20th-century Lithuanian politicians 1971 deaths Women members of the Seimas