Stanisław Car

Stanisław Car was a Polish politician, lawyer, Marshal of the Sejm, deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice. Born on April 26, 1882 into a Warsaw middle class family, he studied law at the University of Warsaw (until 1905), and then at the University of Odessa, where he graduated in 1907. In 1908 - 1911, Car worked as a clerk in a court, opening then his own legal office. In 1915, he became a judge, and a memember of the Commission of Civil Law of the Provisional Council of State.

For most of the 1920s, Car worked in his office. In 1924, he opened a magazine of Warsaw lawyers, “Palestra”, of which he was the first editor in chief. After the May Coup of 1926, he returned to politics. A close associate of Jozef Pilsudski, he remained loyal to the Polish Marshal until Pilsudski’s death in May 1935.

Car was a prominent member of the pro-Sanacja party Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms (BBWR). He co-wrote the April Constitution of Poland.

Stanislaw Car died in Warsaw, on June 18, 1938.

Awards

Order of the White Eagle, posthumously on June 20, 1938,
Great Ribbon of the Order of Polonia Restituta, 1935,
Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (May 2, 1922),
Officer Cross of the Legion of Honour (France).

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