Matthew Stachiw

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Matthew Ivanovych Stachiw (November 30, 1895 – June 2, 1978) was a Ukrainian politician. He was born in Nyshche, then part of Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). He served in the Ukrainian Army from 1918 to 1920. He earned an LL.D. from the University of Prague and worked as a lawyer, university teacher, and editor of several publications. Stachiw represented the Ukrainian Socialist-Radical Party on the Executive Committee of the Labour and Socialist International from August 1931 to 1940. In the early 1960s, he served as editor of the weekly Narodna Volya, published from Scranton. He was active in various Ukrainian-American associations. He died in San Diego, California, at the age of 82.