1st President of the Polish National Alliance

Kucera came to America after the 1863 insurrection. Employed initially as a laborer, he opened up his own business, a grocery store, after arriving in Chicago where he was one of the founders of the Gmina Polska patriotic society.

 

A delegate of the Gmina Polska group at the first PNA convention in September 1880, Kucera was elected the first president of the tiny organization (Andrzejkowicz was chosen temporary president of the Alliance at its February 15, 1880 meeting in Philadelphia but accepted the post of censor at the September convention in Chicago).

After serving two one year terms as president, Kucera was treasurer of the PNA from 1885-1886. In 1899, Kucera (by then a resident of Milwaukee) was elected a vice censor of the Alliance and in 1903 he became an honorary member of the organization he had helped found. He was active in Milwaukee raising money for the construction of a monument to Tadeusz Kosciuszko which was dedicated in 1905.