Mārtiņš Antons (7 January 1888, in

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– 1941) was a

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and

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. Antons graduated from

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in 1912, then worked as a lawyer in

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. During the

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he was a Baltic Refugees Committee member, and then on the Latvian Riflemen Organizing Committee. In 1920, Antons was elected to both the Constitutional Assembly, and the Presidium as a Labor Party politician. However, he was later deported to Russia, and was killed in 1941 during

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