Ryszard Kaczorowski

Ryszard Kaczorowski, GCMG  (26 November 1919 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish statesman. Between 1989 and 1990 he served as the last President of Poland in exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and election of Lech Walesa as the first democratically-elected president of Poland since World War II. He also passed the presidential insignia to Walesa, thus ending the 45-years long episode of the Polish government in exile.