Stepan Vytvytskyi
| Stepan Vytvytskyi Степан Витвицький |
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| 2nd President of Ukraine in exile | |
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In office January, 1954 – October, 1965 |
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| Preceded by | Andriy Livytskyi |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Livytskyi |
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13 March 1884 Uhornyky, Austro-Hungary |
| Died | 9 October 1965 (aged 81) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Spouse(s) | Melaniya Vytvytska |
Stepan Vytvytskyi or Dr. Stepan Wytwycky (Ukrainian: Степан Витвицький) (13 March 1884 near Stanislawow — 9 October 1965 in New York City, United States) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, and journalist. He was the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1954-1965).
Stepan Vytvytskyi was born on 13 March 1884, in the village of Uhornyky, next to the city of Stanislawow, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He studied at the law faculties of the Lviv and Vienna Universities. During his years as a student, Vytvytskyi was the head of Academic Hromada in Lviv and the organization Sich in Vienna. In 1910, he began his practice as a lawyer in Drohobych. In 1914, he entered the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen military organization. From 1915-1918, he was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Dila, and an editor on the Svoboda newspaper, both being based in Lviv.
While being a member of the Ukrainian National-Democratical Party (UNDP) in October 1918, he was elected as a secretary of the Ukrainian National Rada of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR). He was a member of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) Tsentralna Rada and the governmental secretary of foreign affairs of the UPR. As a secretary of the Ukrainian National Rada, he was a member of the delegation of the ZUNR at the Worker's Congress of Ukraine in Kiev, and a delegation member of the act of merging the ZUNR and UPR on January 22, 1919.
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