* 1853, † 1927,

       He was born on 18.7.1853 in Olbrachcice, son of Franciszek Michejda and Anna Czech. He finished the evangelical high school in Cieszyn, and in 1871 began to study law at the Jagellonian University in Krakow. He graduated in Vienna in 1875, and then having returned to Krakow completed his doctorate there in 1877. In 1882, he opened his own law practice in Cieszyn.
       From 1880, Jan Michejda took an active part in the Polish nationalist community in the Cieszyn region of Silesia – he was one of the founders of the Political Folk Association, the Mother School of the Duchy of Cieszyn, a branch of the Sokół Polish Gymnastic Association, Union of Agricultural Companies, Union of Co-operative Savings Banks of the Reiffeisen system and also many schools.
       From 1890 to 1918 he represented the Polish national bloc in the Silesian Parliament in Opawa and was a member of the State Council in Vienna from 1901 – 07, and again from 1911 – 18. After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the end of 1918 he was one of three presidents of the National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn, which appointed him head of the Provisional National Council of the Duchy of Cieszyn. After the division of this part of Silesia in 1920, he was a government commissary in Cieszyn, then mayor of the city. He governed Cieszyn during its most difficult period, when it was necessary to rearrange the entire infrastructure of the divided city, set relations with the German population in order and assist crisis-hit businesses and the unemployed. He died on 14.5.1927 during the ceremonial opening of the railway between Skoczów and Chybie.