Background
LOZORAITIS, Stasys was born on August 2, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Parents: Stays Lozoraitis and Vincenta Lozoraitiene (née Matulaityte).
Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States
LOZORAITIS, Stasys was born on August 2, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Parents: Stays Lozoraitis and Vincenta Lozoraitiene (née Matulaityte).
University of Rome, law, 1948. Spoken languages: Lithuanian. English, italian.
He worked at the Lithuanian legation to the Holy See in Rome from 1943. In 1970, after death of Stasys Girdvainis, Lozoraitis became the chargé d’affaires in Rome. On November 15, 1987, Lozoraitis succeeded Stasys Bačkis as the leader of Lithuania"s diplomatic service in exile, the position held by his father until 1983.
The diplomatic service, based in Washington, District of Columbia, was representation of interwar independent Lithuania and did not recognize authority of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a republic of the Soviet Union.
In March 1990, Lithuania declared restoration of its independence. On September 6, 1991, following August Putsch in Moscow and international recognition of independent Lithuania, Lozoraitis resigned the diplomatic service in favor of the national government established in Vilnius.
In December 1991, he was appointed as the new government"s chief diplomat to the United States, where he re-established the embassy. He was a candidate in the Lithuanian presidential election of February 1993, gathering 38.9% of vote and losing to Algirdas Brazauskas.
In May 1993, just a few months after the election, Brazauskas recalled Lozoraitis as ambassador to the United States. despite criticism of politicizing the issue.
In late 1993, Lozoraitis was appointed as the ambassador to Italy. Lozoraitis died of kidney failure at Georgetown University Hospital. He was buried in Putnam Cemetery in Connecticut.
He was reburied in Petrašiūnai Cemetery in Kaunas in 1999.
Documentary Vilties prezidentas (The President of Hope) was produced by Vytautas Landsbergis in 1996.
Roman Catholic