Daniel Ciugureanu (; 9 December 1885
– 19 May 1950
) was a
Romania
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n politician from Bessarabia, deputy in
Sfatul Țării from
Chișinău
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,
Prime Minister
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of the
Moldavian Democratic Republic from –, Minister for Bessarabia in four Romanian Governments, Deputy and Senator, vice-president of the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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, vice-president and President of the
Senate
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of
Kingdom of Romania
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.
He was born in 1885 in
Șirăuți
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,
Khotinsky Uyezd, in the
Bessarabia Governorate of the
Russian Empire
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, the son of Alexandru Ciugureanu, a priest, and his wife, Ecaterina, a teacher. After attending secondary school in
Bălți and the theological seminary in Chișinău, he enrolled in 1905 at the
Kyiv Imperial University of Saint Vladimir, graduating from medical school in 1912.
Ciugureanu was one of the founders and leaders of the
National Moldavian Party and one of the promoters of the
Union of Bessarabia with Romania. On , the
Sfatul Țării voted unanimously to proclaim the independence of the
Moldavian Democratic Republic. The Board of Directors became the Council of Ministers, and Ciugureanu was elected Prime Minister of the new republic. In fact, it was a reconfirmation of the function in the light of the fact that he was elected First Director on .
After the
Union of Bessarabia with Romania he served as minister for
Bessarabia in four Romanian governments from 9 April 1918 to 30 November 1919.
Ciugureanu was arrested on 5 May 1950 by the
communist authorities of Romania. While being transported in a van, he had a stroke at
Turda
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. According to some sources, he died at a nearby hospital the next day;
according to official records of the
Securitate, he died several days later at
Sighet Prison.
He was buried at the , in a
common grave.
As his grave is not known, in 1993 a cross was installed at the Sighet Cemetery, while his son, Gheorghe Ciugureanu, had a
cenotaph erected at the cemetery next to
Cernica Monastery, near Bucharest.
See also
*
Daniel Ciugureanu Cabinet
References
External links
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Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance
1885 births
1950 deaths
People from Briceni District
People from Khotinsky Uyezd
Romanian people of Moldovan descent
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni
Moldovan physicians
20th-century Romanian physicians
Moldovan independence activists
Socialist Revolutionary Party politicians
Moldovan MPs 1917–1918
Prime ministers of Moldova
Members of the Romanian Cabinet
Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
Grand Officers of the Order of the Star of Romania
Recipients of the National Order of Faithful Service
Inmates of Sighet prison
Prisoners who died in Securitate custody
Romanian people who died in prison custody
Burials at Cernica Monastery Cemetery
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