B. Oct. 26, 1866, Zbaraż (today in the Ukraine), the son of a bureaucrat. In 1892 he took part in the founding congress of the Socialist-Democratic Party. In 1897-1918 he sat in the Austrian parliament. In Nov. 1918 he took charge of the left-wing Lublin government, which proclaimed in its manifesto a republican constitution of the Polish State and announced a policy of wide-ranging social reforms. Upon Piłsudski’s return from Magdeburg, Daszyński’s government resigned; the mission of forming a coalition government failed, as National Democracy was opposed to it. During the Russo-Polish war he was deputy prime minister in the Government of National Defence (late 1920-early 1921). From 1919 to 1930 he was a member of parliament, for a time also its deputy speaker and speaker. Initially he supported Piłsudski’s May coup, but soon went over to the opposition camp. D. Oct. 31, 1936, in a spa in Bystra.