Grigore Trandafil (February 4, 1840–February 23, 1907) was a

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n-born

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n magistrate and politician. Born in

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, he studied law at the

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, obtaining a doctorate. After returning home, he entered the magistracy, where he was successively prosecutor, president of the

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tribunal, department head in the

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(1866), general prosecutor (1867), president of the Bucharest appeals court (1868) and prosecutor at the

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(1872). Trandafil joined an early conservative association in 1878, and entered the

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after it was founded in 1880. A close associate of

Lascăr Catargiu Lascăr Catargiu ( or Lascăr Catargi; 1 November 1823 – ) was a Romanian conservative statesman born in Moldavia. He belonged to an ancient Wallachian family, one of whose members had been banished in the 17th century by Prince Matei Basarab ...

, he was first elected to the Assembly of Deputies in 1879. Trandafil was Justice Minister in the cabinet of

Gheorghe Manu Gheorghe Manu (26 July 1833, Bucharest, Wallachia – 16 May 1911, Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania) was a Romanian Army general, artillery inspector and statesman. He served as Prime Minister (1889–1891), Minister of War, Minister of the ...

from November 1890 to February 1891. He served as

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from June 1892 until the following February. He was Assembly President from February 1905 until his death two years later. Many laws were adopted during his presidency, some of them aiming to improve villagers' material situation, but the measures failed to prevent the 1907 Peasants' Revolt. Dinu C. Giurescu, ''Dicționar biografic de istorie a României'', p. 544. Bucharest: Editura Meronia, 2008.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trandafil, Grigore 1840 births 1907 deaths Politicians from Bucharest University of Paris alumni Romanian expatriates in France Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) politicians Romanian Ministers of Justice Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Mayors of Bucharest 19th-century Romanian judges Romanian prosecutors