He finished Agricultural Technical School in Kościelec and in 1976 he graduated from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.
In the Cabinets of Waldemar Pawlak, Józef Oleksy and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1993–1997) he served as a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture.
In the years 1991-2001 he was a Member of Parliament from the Polish People's Party (PSL) from Siedlce province.
In 1992-1996 and 2001-2002 he was a member of the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg where he was part of a faction of the European People's Party.
He is also a vice-president of the board of the Polish-Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and a member of the PSL in Garwolin authorities.