Juozas Karvelis (18 April 1934 â 12 April 2018) was a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
After attending school in Inkakliai from 1942 to 1944 and then in à  vÃÂkà ¡na, near à  ilutÃÂ, in 1949âÂÂ50, he studied at the Lithuanian Maritime Academy in KlaipÃÂda from 1950 to 1952. He continued his studies at the Naval College of Murmansk, where he graduated in 1954. Karvelis studied at the University of Vilnius in 1960âÂÂ63. He worked in Murmansk in 1954âÂÂ58, and then in KlaipÃÂda since 1959. He was Second Assistant to the Head of the Lithuanian Maritime Transport and Captain. He worked as a maritime captain at the trade port in KlaipÃÂda in 1986âÂÂ90.
A member of Sàjà «dis, Karvelis became a member of the Fifth Seimas in 1990, being also a member of the Economic Committee. He did not seek re-election after 1992.
Karvelis was married to Janina (b. 1934) and had three children.