Edvardas Adamkavičius (March 31, 1888 – May 10, 1957) was a Lithuanian general.

Early life

He was born in

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, Lithuania.

Interwar Lithuanian Army

He enlisted in the Lithuanian Army in 1918. He was made a

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on September 6, 1933, a

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in 1936 and a divisional general on February 16, 1937. He retired in 1940.

Occupation and emigration

After the occupation of Lithuania by the

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, he fled to

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. He emigrated to the United States in 1949. He died in

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Family

He was the uncle of future

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Valdas Adamkus Valdas Adamkus (; born Voldemaras Adamkavičius; 3 November 1926) is a Lithuanian-American politician, diplomat and civil engineer. He served as the 5th and 7th President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009. Adamkus' ...

Bibliography

Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija The ''Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija'' or VLE (translation ''Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia'') is a 25-volume universal Lithuanian-language encyclopedia published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute from 2001 to 2014. V ...

, Bd. 1, S. 73.

References

1888 births 1957 deaths American people of Lithuanian descent Lithuanian emigrants to the United States Lithuanian generals People from Mažeikiai {{Lithuania-stub