Miķelis Valters was the first Latvian Minister of the Interior (1918—1919), member of the New Current intellectual movement, lawyer, politician, diplomat, social activist, and one of the authors of the Latvian Constitution. He was the first social activist who publicly advocated for a sovereign Latvian state. In the 1903 journal "Proletārietis" he wrote the article "Patvaldību nost! Krieviju nost!" Recipient of the Order of the Three Stars Commander Grand Cross.
