Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (29 January 1883-30 November 1993) was a Polish politician and a co-founder of the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government.
Biography[]
Waclaw Jedrzejewicz was born in Spiczyńce, Congress Poland, Russian Empire on 29 January 1883, the brother of Janusz Jedrzejewicz, and he cofounded the Polish Military Organization in 1915. In July 1917, he and several other officers in the Polish Legions were imprisoned by the German Empire during the Oath Crisis. Jedrzejewicz went on to serve in the Polish Army's military intelligence during the Polish-Soviet War, and he served as a military attache in Tokyo, Japan from 1925 to 1928. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1940, Jedrzejewicz joined Wladyslaw Sikorski's government-in-exile in Paris, and, in March 1941, he emigrated to New York City due to political disagreements with Sikorski. He founded the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in New York in July 1943 before becoming a college professor, and he died in Cheshire, Connecticut in 1993 at the age of 100.