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Constantin Agiu (November 5, 1891,
Dolj County Dolj County (; originally meant ''Dol(no)- Jiu'', "lower Jiu", as opposed to ''Gorj'' (''upper Jiu'')) is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova. Demographics In 2011, the cou ...
– February 19, 1961,
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) was a
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n Communist politician; he was also President of the
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, the
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legislature of the
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Biography

He was a carpenter. A member of the
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(PCR), he was noted by
Ștefan Foriș Ștefan Foriș (born István Fóris, also known as Marius; May 9, 1892 – summer of 1946) was a Romanian communist activist and journalist who served as general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR or PCdR) between 1940 and 1944 ...
and appointed a party instructor for Oltenia (1941), and from June 1943 he was a member of the
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Central Committee. During World War II, together with Foriș, Remus Koffler, Iosif Rangheț,
Constantin Pîrvulescu Constantin Pîrvulescu (November 10, 1895, Olănești, Vâlcea County – July 11, 1992, Roman) was a Romanian communist politician, one of the founders of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), who, as time went on, became an active opponent ...
, and
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu (; November 4, 1900 – April 17, 1954) was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and economist. For a while, he w ...
, he belonged to the small clandestine party faction that was active inside Romania. Even after April 4, 1944 (when Foriș was removed from the office of general secretary), he held important positions. For example, he was in charge of revenue control by the Central Financial Commission of the PCR, or conducting negotiations with the
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for the realization of the Unique Workers' Front. Agiu served as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture from March 6, 1945 to April 14, 1948 in the governments headed by
Petru Groza Petru Groza (7 December 1884 – 7 January 1958) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician, best known as the first Prime Minister of the Communist Party-dominated government under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Commu ...
, and served as the President of the
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from 11 June to 27 December 1948. In 1956 he was sanctioned with a blame vote on the exclusion of General
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from the party.ANIC, Fond C.C. al P.C.R., Cancelarie, dosar nr. 76/1956, „Cu privire la activitatea antipartinică a unor membri de partid”, f. 175-176v. In 1958, he joined the leadership committee of the Association of Former Inhabitants and deported anti-fascist politicians.


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{{President Chamber of Deputies Romania Presidents of the Great National Assembly Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) 1891 births 1961 deaths Carpenters People from Dolj County Romanian Communist Party politicians