Jakub Bojko

Austria state institutions Agrarianism and peasant parties Poland Poland 1857–1943 ○ Natural causes

Pioneer of the Galician peasant movement, called the 'peasants' Skarga'

Born into a peasant family in Gręboszów, he became a teacher through self-education and wrote poems and stories while farming. He co-founded the People's Party in Galicia in 1895, served as its vice-president and sat in the Austrian parliament from 1897 to 1918. He was president of PSL 'Piast' from 1913 to 1918. After independence he was deputy speaker of the Legislative Sejm (1919–1922) and of the Senate (1922–1927). After the May Coup he left 'Piast' in 1927, founded the pro-government Union of the Polish People and joined the BBWR. He retired from politics in 1935.

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