Jan Černý (4 March 1874 in

Uherský Ostroh Uherský Ostroh (; ) is a town in Uherské Hradiště District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,200 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Mo ...

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– 10 April 1959 in Uherský Ostroh,

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) was a Czechoslovak

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and

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. He was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1920 to 1921 and in 1926. He also served as the provincial president (

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) of Moravia in 1918–1920, 1921–1928 and 1929–1939. Jan Černý was born into a furriers family in the small town of

, in the east of Moravia (

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). He attended the gymnasium (a grammar school) in

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from 1885 to 1893. After studies at the Faculty of Law of

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– he graduated in 1898 – he began professional career as a state servant (county director) in Hodonín. From 1912 he was a senior department director in the Moravian governor's office ( stadtholder government). At the time of the revolutionary establishment of Czechoslovakia,Macmillan Margaret (2003). ''Peacemakers''. London, John Murray Press. Chapter 18 being the highest-ranked

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-speaking imperial state servant in Moravia, he became the head of the local government for the new state on 29 November 1918.

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