<P> The first president of Poland , Gabriel Narutowicz , was sworn in as president of the Second Republic on 11 December 1922 . He was elected by the National Assembly ( the Sejm and the Senate ) under the terms of the 1921 Constitution of Poland . Previously Józef Piłsudski had been `` Chief of State '' ( Naczelnik Państwa ) under the provisional 1919 Constitution . In 1926 , Piłsudski . who was fed up with regional bickering , staged a coup deposed the president and had the National Assembly elect a new one , Ignacy Mościcki , under the thumb of Sanacja . Just before Piłsudski died , parliament passed the 1935 April Constitution of Poland which incorporated Piłsudski 's ideals , but was not in accord with the amendment procedures of the 1921 Constitution . Mościcki continued as president until he resigned following the German invasion of Poland in 1939 . Mościcki and his government went into exile first into Romania , where Mościcki was interned , then to Angers in France where Władysław Raczkiewicz , at the time the Speaker of the Senate , assumed the presidency following Mościcki 's resignation on 29 September 1939 , and then on to London . The transfer from Mościcki to Raczkiewicz was in accordance with Article 24 of the 1935 April Constitution . </P>
<P> The first president of Poland , Gabriel Narutowicz , was sworn in as president of the Second Republic on 11 December 1922 . He was elected by the National Assembly ( the Sejm and the Senate ) under the terms of the 1921 Constitution of Poland . Previously Józef Piłsudski had been `` Chief of State '' ( Naczelnik Państwa ) under the provisional 1919 Constitution . In 1926 , Piłsudski . who was fed up with regional bickering , staged a coup deposed the president and had the National Assembly elect a new one , Ignacy Mościcki , under the thumb of Sanacja . Just before Piłsudski died , parliament passed the 1935 April Constitution of Poland which incorporated Piłsudski 's ideals , but was not in accord with the amendment procedures of the 1921 Constitution . Mościcki continued as president until he resigned following the German invasion of Poland in 1939 . Mościcki and his government went into exile first into Romania , where Mościcki was interned , then to Angers in France where Władysław Raczkiewicz , at the time the Speaker of the Senate , assumed the presidency following Mościcki 's resignation on 29 September 1939 , and then on to London . The transfer from Mościcki to Raczkiewicz was in accordance with Article 24 of the 1935 April Constitution . </P>
who was the first elected president of poland
who was the first elected president of poland
Gabriel Narutowicz
Gabriel Narutowicz