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Gabriel Narutowicz ( March 17 1865 – December 16 1922 ) was the first elected President of the Republic Of Poland . Born in Telšiai in Lithuania , then under the Russian Partitions Of The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , Narutowicz had been a professor at the Polytechnic al Institute in Zurich Switzerland , since 1908, and had directed the construction of many hydroelectric plants in Western Europe. After Poland regained its independence in 1918 , he became involved in the national politics of Poland, and served as the Minister of Public Works, 1920 - 1921 , and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922 . (left), Warsaw , 1922 .]] On December 9 1922 , he was elected by the Polish Parliament ( Sejm , convened as the National Assembly Of Poland ), to be the ''First President of Poland'', and was sworn in on December 11 . His election, supported by the Left, Center, Peasant and Minority deputies, roused the ire of the Right-Wing deputies, particularly the National Democrats , who emphasized that the deputies who had supported Narutowicz had included Jews, and hence called the newly-elected head of state the "President of the Jews". On December 16 1922 , five days after his inauguration, while attending the opening of an art exhibit at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw , Narutowicz, was shot by a sympathizer of the National Democrats, an art professor and critic, Eligiusz Niewiadomski , who a month later, was executed for the murder. Gabriel Narutowicz's brother, Lith: Stanislovas Narutavičius , was a member of the Lithuanian Council of State, and his signature appears on the Lithuanian Act of Independence of February 16 1918 . SEE ALSO
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