Jan Paweł Łuszczewski
Jan Paweł Łuszczewski was born on June 26, 1764. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Jan Paweł Łuszczewski
Jan Paweł Łuszczewski (26 June 1764 in Skotniki, Masovian Voivodeship – 4 July 1812 in Warsaw) was a Polish politician who was an envoy to the Four-Year Sejm and later the Minister for Interior and Religious Affairs in the Duchy of Warsaw from 5 October 1807 until his death. He was also a Mason. From 1785-95, he was a secretary to the king, Stanisław August Poniatowski, until his forced abdication. In 1788-89, he acted as a secretary for the Four-Year Sejm, at which he was also the secretary for the confederated Crown provinces, and from 1790, the envoy from the Sochaczew Land to said Sejm. As a member of the Patriotic Party, he was a supporter of the Constitution of 3 May in debates. On 29 April 1791, he received honorary citizenship of the city of Warsaw. From 1800, he was a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning, to whom he left his political materials of the Four-Year Sejm. In 1806, he declared himself to be a supporter of Napoleon. As a consequence of this, he was appointed the next year to be a minister of the Napoleonic duchy. He was supported by the king Frederick August I and by the French ambassador Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt. In 1807, he received the Legion of Honour and in 1809, became a chevalier of the Orders of St. Stanislaus and of the White Eagle. He was married twice, firstly to Aleksandra Cieciszowska, with whom he had a daughter Ewa and three sons: Adam, Michał, and Wacław; and then to Ewa Orsetti, with whom he had a daughter Paulina. He is buried beside his first wife in Warsaw.