Ion Mihalache

Romanian statesman
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Born:
March 3, 1882, Topoloveni, Rom.
Died:
1963, Sighet (aged 80)
Founder:
Peasant Party

Ion Mihalache (born March 3, 1882, Topoloveni, Rom.—died 1963, Sighet) was a Romanian statesman and popular political leader and founder of the Peasant Party. In 1918 Mihalache formed the Peasant Party of the old Regat (Moldavia and Walachia); the party had much success in the elections of November 1919. While he was minister of agriculture in the Peasant-Transylvanian National Party coalition government (1919–20), his proposed land reforms disquieted King Ferdinand and the conservative interests and led to the so-called royal coup d’état of March 1920, in which the rightist general Alexandru Averescu was installed as premier. In October 1926 Mihalache ...(100 of 198 words)