Kazimieras Uoka

{{Short description|Lithuanian politician}}

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Kazimieras Uoka (4 March 1951 – 16 July 2016) was a Lithuanian politician and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.{{cite web|title=Lietuvos Respublikos Aukščiausiosios Tarybos AKTO Dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės atstatymo signataras Kazimieras Uoka|publisher=Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania|url=http://www.lrs.lt/datos/kovo11/signatarai/www_lrs.signataras-p_asm_id=94.htm|access-date=2008-12-21|language=lt|archive-date=2008-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027213440/http://www.lrs.lt/datos/kovo11/signatarai/www_lrs.signataras-p_asm_id=94.htm|url-status=dead}}

Born in Kaunas, Uoka received a degree in history from Vilnius University in 1976. He was a leader of the labor movement in the early years of the independence movement.{{cite book|author=Vytas Stanley Vardys, Judith B. Sedaitis|title=Lithuania: The Rebel Nation|year=1997|publisher=Westview Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ueHRten9pX0C&q=Kazimieras+Uoka&pg=PA204 | isbn=978-0-8133-1839-4}}