accept a Soviet garrison, President Antanas Smetona fled the country leaving Merkys as acting president. Merkys ostensibly cooperated with the Soviets...

Antanas Smetona (Lithuanian: [ɐnˈtǎːnɐs sʲmʲɛtoːˈnɐ] ; 10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and politician who served...

Soviet Union entered Lithuania, prompting President Antanas Smetona to flee the country. Antanas Merkys, who assumed the position of acting president in...

1930s. After President Antanas Smetona fled to the US when the Soviet Union occupied the country, Prime Minister Antanas Merkys became acting president...

theologian, and poet Antanas Mackevičius (1828–1863), Lithuanian priest and an initiator and leader of the 1863 January Uprising Antanas Merkys (1887–1955), Lithuanian...

a commissioner of the Lithuanian government. The first of these was Antanas Merkys, who spoke Polish well and made some conciliatory decisions toward Poles...

Estonia and Latvia. 16 June 1940, Prime minister of Lithuania Antanas Merkys removes Antanas Smetona from the post of president and, contrary to Lithuanian...

of President was established on 4 April 1919. Chairman of the Presidium Antanas Smetona was elected as First President of the State of Lithuania by the...

1 August 1926) Karolis Žalkauskas (1 August 1926 – 1 November 1927) Antanas Merkys (1 November 1927 – 19 May 1932) Vytautas Jonas Gylys (19 May 1932 –...

Minister Antanas Merkys as per the constitution. The next day, Merkys declared himself president in his own right. The cabinet confirmed Merkys in office...