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Maria Moczydłowska (4 October 1886 – 26 April 1969) was a Polish educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Sejm in 1919, serving in parliament until 1922.
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Maria Moczydłowska (4 October 1886 – 26 April 1969) was a Polish educator and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Sejm in 1919, serving in parliament until 1922.
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Biography Moczydłowska was born Maria Grzymkowska in Łomża (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1886 to Józef and Feliksa. She became involved in the co-operative movement in 1902 and in 1905 participated in the Russian Revolution and went on strike. She became a teacher, teaching in Kalisz, Łomża and Warsaw. After marrying Mieczysław Moczydłowski, she worked with her husband at an agricultural school at Lisków, where she also worked alongside Wacław Bliziński. In 1913 she published a book, Wieś Lisków. She was a Polish United Party (PZL) candidate in Częstochowa in the 1919 parliamentary elections and was one of five women elected. Moczydłowska subsequently became the first woman to speak in a debate in the Legislative Sejm. After the PZL split in July 1919, she became a member of the National People's Union (NZL) and served as secretary of the party's parliamentary faction. During the term of the Sejm, she was a member of the Education, Labour Protection and Social Welfare committees. She argued for prohibition and an act restricting the sale of alcoholic drinks became known as 'Lex Moczydłowska'. On several occasions she absented herself from the Sejm to avoid having to vote against measures she supported but…