Antanas Tumėnas

Antanas Tumėnas
Antanas Tumėnas
8th Prime Minister of Lithuania
	In office; 18 June 1924 – 27 January 1925
President	Aleksandras Stulginskis
Preceded by	Ernestas Galvanauskas
Succeeded by	Vytautas Petrulis
Personal details
Born	13 May 1880; Kurkliečiai, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	8 February 1946 (aged 65); Bachmanning, Austria
Political party	Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University

Antanas Tumėnas (13 May 1880 in Kurkliečiai, near Rokiškis – 8 February 1946 in Bachmanning, Austria) was a Lithuanian politician, teacher, professor of law, judge, 8th Prime Minister of Lithuania, Chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania. He was a member of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party.

Tumėnas was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania and was appointed as chairman of the Constitutional Commission of Lithuania (1922).

Later he was a member of the 1st Seimas. He was the speaker of Seimas in 1923.^[1] He participated in creating the law system of the new republic. He was Minister of Justice in the 9th, 10th and 11th Cabinets of Lithuania.

References

^ "Seimo Pirmininkai - 1920–1940 m. Seimo Pirmininkai" (in Lithuanian). Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas. February 10, 2020.

Preceded by Ernestas Galvanauskas	Prime Minister of Lithuania 18 June 1924 – 4 February 1925	Succeeded by Vytautas Petrulis

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