Grigore Filipescu

Grigore N. Filipescu
Filipescu in or around 1936
Leader of the Vlad Țepeș League/Conservative Party
In office June 1929 – March 1938
President of the Romanian Telephone Company
In office 1930 – August 25, 1938
Personal details
Born	October 1, 1886 Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Died	August 25, 1938(1938-08-25) (aged 51) Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality	Romanian
Spouse(s)	Ioana Cantacuzino
Relations	Nicolae Filipescu (father) Ion G. Duca (cousin) Dimitrie I. Ghika (cousin) Vladimir Ghika (cousin) Alexandru II Ghica (great-granduncle) Nicolae Moret Blaremberg (granduncle) Matei B. Cantacuzino (father-in-law)
Profession	Engineer, civil administrator, journalist, businessman
Religion	Romanian Orthodox
Nickname(s)	Filipescu-Mătură

Grigore N. Filipescu (Francized Grégoire Filipesco; October 1, 1886 – August 25, 1938) was a Romanian politician, journalist and engineer, the chief editor of Epoca daily between 1918 and 1938. He was the scion of an aristocratic conservative family, son of the statesman Nicolae Filipescu and a collateral descendant of Alexandru II Ghica. During the early stages of World War I, he and his father led a pro-Allied dissident wing of the Conservative Party. After serving on the front, and behind the lines to 1918, as aide to General Alexandru Averescu, Filipescu Jr. became his political adviser. He had a stint in the Labor Party, merged into Averescu's own People's Party. Filipescu served as the latter group's tactician and campaigner, but had irreconcilable differences with Averescu.

Known as an antagonist who fought duels with his political rivals, Filipescu switched parties frequently, hoping to coalesce the conservative groups around himself. He served terms in Parliament and held several other public commissions as an affiliate of the Romanian National Party, the Conservative-Democratic Party, and the National Peasants' Party. In 1929, he founded his own Vlad Țepeș League (later branded "Conservative Party"), which was instrumental in ensuring the ascendancy to the throne of King Carol II, the banished heir. The League participated in the coalition backing Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga, but spoke out against Iorga's debt relief legislation. Withdrawing from government, Filipescu remained one of the few politicians who still supported economic liberalism during the Great Depression.