Who was the last to hold the presidential insignia for Poland before democratic election handed it to Lech Wałęsa?

Question

Before political activism and eventual election in 1990 as President of Republic of Poland, what was Lech Wałęsa's occupation?

Answer 1

Ryszard Kaczorowski
During Soviet rule in Poland from 1939 to 1990, the Second Polish Republic which had been supplanted maintained a government-in-exile in Paris. Kaczorowski was the last president in exile. Moscicki was the president in 1939; Pilsudski was an influential statesman in the Second Polish Republic; Kwasniewski succeeded Walesa and served as President from 1995 to 2005.