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 c ...

– February 19, 1961,

Gura Humorului Gura Humorului (; Hebrew and Yiddish: גורה חומורולוי - ''Gure Humuruluei'' or גורא הומאָרא - ''Gura Humora''; German and Polish: ''Gura Humora'') is a town in Suceava County, northeastern Romania. It is situated in the his ...

) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n Communist politician; he was also President of the Great National Assembly, the

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multi ...

legislature of the Romanian People's Republic.

Biography

He was a carpenter. A member of the Communist Party of Romania (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

Romanian Communist Party The Romanian Communist Party ( ro, Partidul Comunist Român, , PCR) was a communist party in Romania. The successor to the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave ideological endorsement to a communist revolution that wo ...

Central Committee. During World War II, together with Foriș, Remus Koffler,

Iosif Rangheț Iosif Rangheț (born Rangecz József, 7 August 1904 – 1 September 1952) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian communist activist and politician. Born into an ethnic Hungarian family, Rangheț was a native of Olari, Arad County. A leather dress ...

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 o ...

, 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 ...

, 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 PSD for the realization of the Unique Workers' Front. 1944 Soviet3

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, and served as the President of the Great National Assembly from 11 June to 27 December 1948. In 1956 he was sanctioned with a blame vote on the exclusion of General Ion Eremia 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