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Jüri Uluots (January 13, 1890 - January 9, 1945) was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, and prominent attorney.

Uluots was born in the Kirbla municipality in 1890, and studied law at St. Petersburg University from 1910 - 1918. He subsequently taught Roman and Estonian law at the University of Tartu until 1944. Uluots was also an editor of the Kaja newspaper from 1919-1920, and editor-in-chief of Postimees from 1937-38.

Uluots was elected to the Riigikogu, the Estonian parliament, from 1920 - 1926, and from 1929 through 1932. He then served as prime minister of Estonia from 1938 until the government was overthrown by the Estonian Communist party with the aid of Soviet troops in June, 1940. The communist government was never internationally recognized, and Uluots and the recognized government went underground.

After the Estonian President Konstantin Päts was arrested and deported to Siberia in 1940. Uluots became prime minister acting in the duties of the president, as dictated by the Estonian constitution. When the Nazis invaded occupied Estonia in 1941 the communist government was overthrown. As the Germans retreated in September,1944, Uluots organized a new government, headed by Otto Tief.

Tief's government was then overthrown by the returning Soviet army, which executed several of its members in 1944. The remainder of the government feld to Stockholm, Sweden, where it operated in exile from 1944 to 1992 when Heinrich Mark, who was prime minister acting in duties of the president, presented his credentials to incoming president Lennart Meri. Uluots died shortly after arriving in Sweden in 1945.

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