István Vásáry (29 January 1887 – 25 August 1955) was a
Hungarian politician, who served as
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
between 1944 and 1945 in the Interim National Government. He studied law in his birthplace. He was the mayor of
Debrecen
Debrecen ( , is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and i ...
between 1928 and 1935. He became representative as member of the
Smallholders Party in 1939. After 1945 he led the party's right-wing side. On 12 March 1946 he was excluded from the party onto the pressure of the
Hungarian Communist Party
The Hungarian Communist Party ( hu, Magyar Kommunista Párt, abbr. MKP), known earlier as the Party of Communists in Hungary ( hu, Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja, abbr. KMP), was a communist party in Hungary that existed during the interwar ...
. Vásáry retired from the politics in 1947.
References
Magyar Életrajzi LexikonVásáry István /linksite.hu/
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1887 births
1955 deaths
People from Debrecen
Finance ministers of Hungary
Speakers of the National Assembly of Hungary
Mayors of Debrecen
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