Jānis Balodis (20 February 1881 – 8 August 1965) was an army general, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Latvia (1919–1921), Minister of War (1931–1940) and politician who was one of the principal figures during the Latvian War of Independence and the dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis, when he officially was the number two of the regime as the Minister of War, Deputy Prime Minister and Vice President.
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20 February 1881 Trikāta parish, Valka District, Latvia
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8 August 1965 (aged 84) Saulkrasti, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
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