Constantin Argetoianu
| Constantin Argetoianu | |
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| Prime Minister of Romania | |
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In office September 28, 1939 – November 24, 1939 |
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| Monarch | Carol II |
| Preceded by | Gheorghe Argeşanu |
| Succeeded by | Gheorghe Tătărescu |
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| Born | March 15, 1871 Craiova, Romania |
| Died | February 6, 1955 (aged 83) Sighet, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party | National Renaissance Front |
| Profession | businessman |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox |
Constantin Argetoianu (March 15 [O.S. March 3] 1871 – February 6, 1955) was a Romanian politician, one of the best-known personalities of interwar Greater Romania, who served as the Prime Minister between September 28 and November 23, 1939. His memoirs, Memorii. Pentru cei de mâine. Amintiri din vremea celor de ieri ("Memoirs. For those of tomorrow. Recollections of yesterday's world")—a cross section of Romanian society, were made known for the sharp critique of several major figures in Romanian politics (using a sarcastic tone which had made his previous political speeches notorious).
Born in Craiova as the son of Army general Ioan Argetoianu, he trained in Law, Medicine, and Letters at the University of Paris, and later entered the diplomatic service (1897).
He was an exceptionally prosperous man (a noted player and landowner in Breasta, Dolj County), and his frequent change in political allegiances was attributed by some of his contemporaries to his financial independence. He served as a combat medic with the rank of captain in the Second Balkan War, where he faced a cholera epidemic.
A Freemason, Argetoianu was first elected to the Senate in 1914 as a Conservative Party representative, where he oscillated between the dissident the mainstream Conservatives of Petre P. Carp and the dissident group around Take Ionescu (the latter was welcoming Romania's entry into World War I on the side of the Entente Powers, which Argetoianu also proposed).
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