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Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( ; ;  – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last Communism, communist leader of Socialist Romania, Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 u ...
, who led
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from 1965 to 1989, served as
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of the
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. Ceaușescu had a large family, several members of which wielded influence in
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. Below are given outlines of his immediate family members' lives, with links to those who have separate articles about them. Nicolae's father was Andruță Ceaușescu (1886–1969), the descendant of a family of shepherds from
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, in
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."La taifas - Nepotul..." Andruță owned a modest house in
Scornicești Scornicești () is a town in Olt County, Romania, with a population of 10,795. The town administers 13 villages (Bălțați, Bircii, Chițeasca, Constantinești, Jitaru, Mărgineni-Slobozia, Mihăilești-Popești, Mogoșești, Negreni, Piscani, R ...
,
Olt County Olt County () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Historical regions of Romania, historical regions of Oltenia and Muntenia (the regions are separated by the Olt River, Olt river). The capital city is Slatina, Roma ...
. A supporter of
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and the Peasants' Party, he was for a while mayor of Scornicești. After the fall and execution of Nicolae, some people from Scornicești claimed Andruță used to
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his wife and children,"Clanul - Arborele genealogic..." while the Romanian media alleged that he was an alcoholic. Nicolae's mother was Alexandrina (''née'' Lixandra Militaru) (1888–1977), descendant of an officer in
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's army. She was a very
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woman, and after his parents died, Nicolae Ceaușescu, an atheist, ordered that a church be built in their memory in Scornicești; their portraits still adorn its walls. In order of birth, their children were: *Niculina Ceaușescu (1914–1991). She was the first in her family to leave for
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, seeking work. There, she kept Nicolae in her home in 1929 when he started work as a shoemaker's apprentice. *
Marin Ceaușescu Marin Ceaușescu (2 February 1916 – 28 December 1989) was a Romanian economist and diplomat, the older brother of Communist Romania's President Nicolae Ceaușescu. He was born in 1916 in Scornicești, Olt County, the son of Andruță and Lixand ...
(1916–1989) (two daughters, Mihaela and Gabriela). *
Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( ; ;  – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian politician who was the second and last Communism, communist leader of Socialist Romania, Romania, serving as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 u ...
(1918–1989). In 1946, he married Elena Petrescu. They had three children: **
Valentin Ceaușescu Valentin Ceaușescu (born 17 February 1948) is a Romanian physicist. He is the eldest and only surviving child of former communist President Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu. Biography Early life and education Valentin Ceaușesc ...
(born 1947) (one son, Daniel, and one daughter, Alexandra). **
Zoia Ceaușescu Zoia Ceaușescu (; 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena and sister of Nicu Ceaușescu and Valentin Ceaușescu. She was also known as Tovară ...
(1949–2006). **
Nicu Ceaușescu Nicu Ceaușescu (; 1 September 1951 – 26 September 1996) was a Romanian physicist and communist politician who was the youngest child of Romanian leaders Nicolae Ceaușescu, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was a close associate of his father' ...
(1951–1996). *Maria Ceaușescu (1920–2008), later Maria Agachi, worked at Electromagnetica, eventually becoming section chief at that factory due to her family connections. She had two daughters, Niculina and Angela; the first one died in the
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. *Florea Ceaușescu (2 August 1922–21 October 2006). He was reportedly an
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sympathizer as a young man, although this cannot be confirmed, as his
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cadre file is missing from the
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. He married Scornicești native Ioana Necă in 1946, and according to his brother Ilie, worked in Bucharest as a waiter in 1946 and as a merchant in 1949. That year, he joined the party and began working for its Bucharest newspaper, ''Steagul Roșu'', later joining ''
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''. Of his relatives, he got on best with Marin, Florin Mihai
"Neamul Ceaușeștilor, pe calea parvenirii socialiste" ("The Ceaușescu Family, on the Road to Communist Success")
, ''
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'', 22 September 2011; accessed September 23, 2011
and he closely resembled Nicolae, with whom he was sometimes confused. *Nicolae Andruță Ceaușescu (1924–1999). Supposedly, his drunken father declared his name as Nicolae at town hall, despite having another son by that name. Once his brother came to power, his father's name was made his middle name in order to distinguish the two. At one time, he was chief of cadres at the
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. Due to a disagreement with his brother, he was later sent to head the
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officers' school in
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. He was arrested during the
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by Aurel Ceciu, one of the people he had promoted from that school.Oprea Nicolae Andruță Ceaușescu had two children, Cristian and Claudia. *
Ilie Ceaușescu Ilie Ceaușescu (8 June 1926 – 1 October 2002) was a Romanian army general and communist politician who was Deputy Defence Minister of Communist Romania during the rule of his older brother, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Ilie's military and political car ...
(1926–2003) (a daughter, Veronica, and a son, Dan). *Elena Ceaușescu, later Elena Bărbulescu (1928–2001), was a history teacher at Scornicești High School. Due to her famous brother, she rapidly advanced in her career, quickly becoming head of her school and then school inspector for the whole of Olt County. She had two daughters, Eugenia and Nadia, and a son, Emil, who held a leadership position at the Ministry of the Interior in Olt County before 1989. *Costel Ceaușescu (1930–1931), the only family member who did not survive to adulthood. *Ion Ceaușescu (1932–2019) taught at the
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and headed the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. After the Revolution of 1989, he established a firm and wrote horticultural works. He had a son, Nicolae, and a daughter, Ileana. Nicolae's parents had 18 grandchildren: 7 boys and 11 girls.


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Biographical sketches of the Ceaușescu clan
René de Flers,
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Background Report/135, 27 July 1984 * *
Marius Oprea Marius Oprea (; born 1964) is a Romanian historian (specialized in recent history), poet and essayist. Born in Târgovişte, he studied history at the University of Bucharest and he has a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD with a thesis on the role and ...

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"Poetul Ceaușescu "s-a format" la Academia Frunze"
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