Jonas Jakimavičius

Jonas Jakimavičius (3 May 1889 – 1 May 1945) was a Lithuanian veterinarian, who became a member of the Council of Lithuania (1919–1920) and the Fourth Seimas (1936–1940).

Educated at the Tartu Veterinary Institute, Jakimavičius owned a farm in Juodžiai and worked as a veterinarian. In January 1919, he was elected to the Council of Lithuania during the Second Conference of the State of Lithuania and became a member of its presidium. In July 1921, he was mobilized into the Lithuanian Army. He served as a veterinarian earning the rank of senior lieutenant. Released to the reserves in 1923, he returned to farm work. In 1936, he was elected to the Fourth Seimas and became one of its most active members. The Seimas was disbanded after the Soviet occupation in June 1940 and Jakimavičius was deported to Siberia in June 1941. He died there in 1945.

Biography Education Jakimavičius was born on 3 May 1889 in Šeštokiškiai village near Josvainiai in the present-day central Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) into a family of Lithuanian farmers.