[suicide] July 7, 1933), chairman of the People's Secretariat and people's secretary for foreign affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918). Skrzeszewski, Stanislaw (b. April 27, 1901, Nowy Sacz, Poland, Russian Empire - d. ...... 4, 1886, Greystone estate, Yonkers, N.Y.), U.S. politician. A leader of the Barnburner or Free-Soil faction of the Democrats, he served in 1846 in the New York Assembly and was a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1846 and ...