Kazys Bobelis

Kazys Bobelis (1923 to 2013) was a Lithuanian surgeon and politician, born in Kaunas. He studied medicine at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, the University of Graz in Austria and the University of Tubingen in Germany, graduating maxima cum laude from Tubingen in 1948. In 1949 he moved to the United States, lived in Chicago and worked as a surgeon; from 1962 to 1972 he was professor of clinical surgery at Loyola University Chicago, and from 1978 to 1991 he practised as a private doctor. Alongside medicine he was active in the Lithuanian immigrant community, serving on the board of the Lithuanian American Congress from 1962 to 1976 and chairing the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania from 1979. After returning to Lithuania in 1992 he was a member of the Seimas for the Marijampole constituency until 2006, stood for president in 1997 and received 3.91 percent of the vote, and from 1996 to 2000 he was president of the Lithuanian Baseball Association.