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Polish National Alliance
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Feliks P.
Garbarek
Term: 1927 - 1928 |
12th President of the Polish National Alliance
- Born in German-occupied Poland, Garbarek came to
Chicago as a child and received an excellent
education. By profession he was a successful
attorney and an accountant. Founder and first
president of Council 120 and later a president of
the Chicago Society of the PNA, he was elected vice
president of the Alliance in 1921 and filled the
office of president upon the death of Casimir
Zychlinski in August 1927, on the eve of the PNA
convention.
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- When the convention collapsed after the "old
guard" faction walked out to hold its own
assembly, the "opposition" faction went to
court to gain control over the administration of the
Alliance. Garbarek served as acting president of the
PNA during the twelve month period in which the
rightful leadership of the Alliance was uncertain.
He did not seek the presidency in 1928 when the
meeting was reconvened but was reelected vice
president.
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- During the 1928 convention Garbarek was quoted in
a Chicago newspaper for some incendiary comments
made about the opposing faction. Though he denied
making the statements attributed to him, the article
provoked a storm of controversy. Garbarek was barely
reelected to the vice presidency and did not again
seek national office in the Alliance.
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