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Ștefan Cicio Pop (1 April 1865 – 16 February 1934) was a Romanian politician.


Biography

Born in Sajgó, Belső-Szolnok County, Principality of Transylvania,
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, Pop's maternal grandfather was the
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Vasile Pop, who supported the boy's expenses during his school years.Ion Mamina, ''Monarhia constituțională în România'', p. 387. Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2000. After attending high school in Szamosújvár (
Gherla Gherla (; ; ) is a municipality in Cluj County, Romania (in the historical region of Transylvania). It is located from Cluj-Napoca on the river Someșul Mic, and has a population of 19,873 as of 2021. Three villages are administered by the city: ...
) and Nagyszeben (
Sibiu Sibiu ( , , , Hungarian: ''Nagyszeben'', , Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'' or ''Hermestatt'') is a city in central Romania, situated in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles th ...
), he went to the universities of
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and
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, obtaining a doctorate in law from the latter institution in 1891. The same year, he became a lawyer in Arad.


Political activity

Pop entered the
Romanian National Party The Romanian National Party (, PNR), initially known as the Romanian National Party in Transylvania and Banat (), was a political party which was initially designed to offer ethnic representation to Romanians in the Kingdom of Hungary, the Tran ...
(PNR) while still a student, and drew notice for championing the defendants in the 1894
Transylvanian Memorandum The ''Transylvanian Memorandum'' () was a petition sent in 1892 by the leaders of the Romanians of Transylvania to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor-King Franz Joseph, asking for equal ethnic rights with the Hungarians, and demanding an end to perse ...
trial. In 1895, together with
Gheorghe Pop de Băsești Gheorghe (or George) Pop de Băsești (; 1 August 1835 – 23 February 1919), also known under the nickname ''Badea'' Gheorghe or ''Badea'' George (roughly "Brother/Uncle George"), was an Austrian Empire, Imperial Austrian-born Romanians, Romani ...
, he represented the Romanians at the Budapest congress of nationalities. Following the PNR's switch to an activist political stance, Pop sat in the Hungarian House of Representatives from 1905 to 1918. He contributed to the press, including the dailies ''Lupta'' (Budapest) and ''Românul'' ( Arad). Pop, as a member of the PNR executive, was involved in the process leading up to and following the
union of Transylvania with Romania The union of Transylvania with Romania was declared on by the assembly of the delegates of ethnic Romanians held in Alba Iulia. The Great Union Day (also called ''Unification Day''), celebrated on 1 December, is a Public holidays in Romani ...
. He attended the party congress in
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on 12 October 1918, that adopted the declaration of self-determination for the Romanians and formed an Arad-based action committee that included Pop. On 30 October, he was named president of the Central Romanian National Council, which took control of the increasingly autonomous Transylvania as Austria-Hungary crumbled near the end of World War I. As such, Pop led negotiations between the PNR and the Socialist Party of Transylvania. One day later, on 1 December, Pop was at
Alba Iulia Alba Iulia (; or ''Carlsburg'', formerly ''Weißenburg''; ; ) is a city that serves as the seat of Alba County in the west-central part of Romania. Located on the river Mureș (river), Mureș in the historical region of Transylvania, it has a ...
, where he served as vice president of the
Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia The Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia () was an assembly held on 1 December 1918 in the city of Alba Iulia in which a total of 1,228 delegates from several areas inhabited by ethnic Romanians declared the union of Transylvania with Romania. ...
that proclaimed the union. According to a source, Ștefan Cicio Pop delayed by a couple of hours the opening of the session of the Great National Assembly and held the inaugural address without being asked to or mandated to do so by the elected President of the Assembly, Gheorghe Pop de Băsești. On 2 December, Pop became vice president and head of the army and public safety department within the Directory Council, the temporary authority of Transylvania. As such, Pop went to the
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in
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and submitted the legislative proposal for the union, together with
Ion Inculeț Ion Inculeț (; 5 April 1884 – 18 November 1940) was a Bessarabian and Romanian politician, the President of the Country Council of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, Minister of the Interior of Romania, full member (since 1918) of the Romania ...
and
Ion Nistor Ion I. Nistor (August 16, 1876 – November 11, 1962) was a Romanian historian and politician. He was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1915 and a professor at the universities of Cernăuți and Bucharest, while also serving as Minis ...
, who supplied similar proposals for, respectively,
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and
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. All three were adopted at the end of 1919, in the first parliament of
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. During this time, Pop belonged to three successive cabinets, serving as Minister without portfolio for Transylvania under
Ion I. C. Brătianu Ion Ionel Constantin Brătianu (, also known as Ionel Brătianu; 20 August 1864 – 24 November 1927) was a Romanian politician, leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Prime Minister of Romania for five terms, and Foreign Minister on seve ...
(December 1918 – September 1919),
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(September–November 1919) and Alexandru Vaida-Voievod (December 1919 – March 1920). He first won a term in the Romanian Assembly of Deputies in 1919. In 1926, after the PNR merged with the Peasants' Party to form the
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, Pop became vice president of the new formation. Active as a diplomat, he led the Romanian delegation to the first Balkan Conference, held at Athens in 1930; and to the second, at Istanbul in 1931, where he led the committee for political rapprochement. The 1932 conference took place at Bucharest, and Pop was its president. He was twice Assembly President: December 1928 to April 1931, and August 1932 to November 1933. Pop died in Arad, Dinu C. Giurescu, ''Dicționar biografic de istorie a României'', pp. 133–34. Bucharest: Editura Meronia, 2008. days after
Vasile Goldiș Vasile Goldiș (12 November 1862 – 10 February 1934) was a Romanian politician, social theorist, and member of the Romanian Academy. Early life He was born on 12 November 1862 in his grandfather's (Teodor Goldiș) house in the village of ...
. Among the participants at the funeral were Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu,
Iuliu Maniu Iuliu Maniu (; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was a Romanian lawyer and politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the Union of Transylvania wi ...
,
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, Sever Bocu, Alexandru Nicolescu and Nicolae Săveanu."Ștefan Cicio Pop"
in ''Renașterea'', Nr. 8/1934, p. 2 (digitized by the
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Tributes


Numismatic

On the occasion of the
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, on 26 November 2018, the
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put into circulation, for the attention of the numismatists, a set of coins; on the obverse of each of the coins in the set are engraved a processing of a photo done by
Samoilă Mârza Samoilă Mârza (; 18 September 1886 – 19 December 1967) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian photographer. A native of Transylvania region and a veteran of World War I, he is best known for taking the only photographs of the ...
, the texts (in a circle) ROMANIA and THE GREAT MEETING FROM ALBA IULIA, the nominal value, the
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and the thousandths (the year of issue) 2018. On the reverse part of each coin is engraved the effigies of Stefan Cicio Pop,
Gheorghe Pop de Băsești Gheorghe (or George) Pop de Băsești (; 1 August 1835 – 23 February 1919), also known under the nickname ''Badea'' Gheorghe or ''Badea'' George (roughly "Brother/Uncle George"), was an Austrian Empire, Imperial Austrian-born Romanians, Romani ...
,
Iuliu Maniu Iuliu Maniu (; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was a Romanian lawyer and politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the Union of Transylvania wi ...
,
Vasile Goldiș Vasile Goldiș (12 November 1862 – 10 February 1934) was a Romanian politician, social theorist, and member of the Romanian Academy. Early life He was born on 12 November 1862 in his grandfather's (Teodor Goldiș) house in the village of ...
and
Iuliu Hossu Iuliu Hossu (30 January 1885 – 28 May 1970) was a Romanian Romanian Greek-Catholic Uniate Church, Greek-Catholic prelate who served as the Cluj-Gherla Diocese, Bishop of Cluj-Gherla. Pope Paul VI elevated Hossu to the rank of Cardinal (Cathol ...
. Gold coins have a nominal value of 500 lei (200 copies), silver coins have a nominal value of 10 lei (200 copies), and those of common metal have a nominal value of 50 dollars (5,000 copies), all of
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quality. In the same set of coins, 1,000,000 medal coins of general UNC quality were issued.


Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pop, Stefan Cicio 1865 births 1934 deaths People from Cluj County Romanian Greek-Catholics Eötvös Loránd University alumni Ethnic Romanian politicians in Transylvania National Peasants' Party politicians Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Members of the House of Representatives (Hungary) Members of the Romanian Cabinet Romanian activists Romanian diplomats 19th-century Romanian lawyers Delegates of the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia Politicians from Austria-Hungary