Stan Ghițescu (June 2, 1881 – February 25, 1952) was a

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n politician. Born in

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"Victimele terorii comuniste. Arestați, torturați, întemnițați, uciși. Dicționar G"
/ref> he attended a normal school and entered

Alexandru Averescu Alexandru Averescu (; 9 March 1859 – 2 October 1938) was a Romanian marshal, diplomat and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets (as well as being ''inter ...

's People's Party.Costin Scorpan, ''Istoria României: enciclopedie'', p. 261. Bucharest: Editura Nemira, 1997. He served as mayor of Roșiorii de Vede from 1920 to 1921. In 1926, he was elected vice president of the Assembly of Deputies. He later joined

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National Agrarian Party The National Agrarian Party ( ro, Partidul Național-Agrar or ''Partidul Național-Agrarian'', PNA) was a right-wing agrarian party active in Romania during the early 1930s. Established and led by poet Octavian Goga, it was originally a schism fro ...

, which subsequently merged with the

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to form the

National Christian Party The National Christian Party ( ro, Partidul Național Creștin) was a radical-right authoritarian and strongly antisemitic political party in Romania active between 1935 and 1938. It was formed by a merger of Octavian Goga's National Agrarian Pa ...

. He became general secretary of the new party, and while Goga was Prime Minister from December 1937 to March 1938, served as Minister of Cooperation. He took part in the 1938 formation of the

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, the sole party under

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. He served as Minister of Labor in two cabinets during the summer of 1940: under Ion Gigurtu from July 4 to September 4, and under Ion Antonescu from September 4 to 14, until the establishment of the

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.Neagoe, p. 137 Arrested under the new

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, he was sent to

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in May 1950, dying there nearly two years later. He was buried in a mass grave.

Notes

References

*Stelian Neagoe, ''Istoria guvernelor României''. Bucharest: Editura Machiavelli, 1999.

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