What is Valdas Adamkus?
{{Infobox President |honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] |name = Valdas Adamkus |image = BDF Summit 2010.06.01 587 (4709180104) (cropped).jpg |office = [[List of rulers of Lithuania|President of Lithuania]] |primeminister = [[Algirdas Brazauskas]]<br/>[[Zigmantas Balčytis]] <small>(Acting)</small><br/>[[Gediminas Kirkilas]]<br/>[[Andrius Kubilius]] |term_start = 12 July 2004 |term_end = 12 July 2009 |predecessor = [[Rolandas Paksas]] |successor = [[Dalia Grybauskaitė]] |primeminister2 = [[Gediminas Vagnorius]]<br>[[Irena Degutienė]] <small>(Acting)</small><br>[[Rolandas Paksas]]<br>[[Irena Degutienė]] <small>(Acting)</small><br>[[Andrius Kubilius]]<br>[[Rolandas Paksas]]<br>[[Eugenijus Gentvilas]] <small>(Acting)</small><br>[[Algirdas Brazauskas]] |term_start2 = 26 February 1998 |term_end2 = 26 February 2003 |predecessor2 = [[Algirdas Brazauskas]] |successor2 = [[Rolandas Paksas]] |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1926|11|3|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Kaunas]], [[Lithuania]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]<ref>{{cite book| last = Miles| first = Lee| title = The European Union: Annual Review 2002/2003| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=puqHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA171| year = 2003| publisher = Blackwell Publishing| isbn = 978-1-4051-2986-2 }}</ref> |profession = [[Civil engineer]], [[civil servant]] |spouse = [[Alma Adamkienė]] |signature = Lisbon Treaty FA Lithuania Valdas Adamkus.svg }} '''Valdas Adamkus''' (born 3 November 1926) is a Lithuanian politician and engineer. He was the [[President of Lithuania]] from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009. ==Life== He was born on November 3, 1926, in [[Kaunas]], [[Lithuania]]. His birth name was '''Valdemaras Adamkavičius'''. In 1951, he married [[Alma Adamkienė]]. On 3 January 2025, Adamkus was hospitalized in Vilnius after having [[heart failure]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2454676/lithua