Jan Ciechanowski

Jan Maria Włodzimierz Ciechanowski (15 May 1887 – 16 April 1973) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He was the envoy of Poland to the United States from 1925 to 1929, and later the ambassador of Poland (Polish government-in-exile) to the United States from 1940 to 1945. From 1939 to 1940 he was the secretary-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

From 1919 to 1925 he was a legation counselor at the embassy of Poland in London, England. In 1928, he and Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State signed treaties of conciliation and international arbitration between Poland and the United States.

From 1939 to 1940, during the Second World War he was the secretary-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

Ciechanowski died on 16 April 1973 in Washington, D.C., United States.

Works 1947: Defeat in Victory (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.)

Orders and decorations Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta