Grigore Iunian

Grigore Iunian (September 30, 1882 – 1939) was a Romanian left-wing politician and lawyer. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) during the 1910s, he rallied with the Peasants' Party (PŢ) after World War I, and followed it into the National Peasants' Party (PNŢ), before leaving in 1933 to create the Radical Peasants' Party (PŢR), over which he presided until his death.

Born in Târgu Jiu, Iunian was the son of a lawyer. He studied Law at the University of Bucharest, and joined the bar association after first entering politics with the PNL and being elected to the Chamber of Deputies. According to the politician and memoirist Constantin Xeni,

"Gr. Iunian had ten years of fame in law practice. He honored the bar, and his memory deserves to live on. Among his contemporaries, between 1925 and 1938, there surely were more distinguished lawyers. But Iunian was not just a lawyer, not just a diligent jurist in studying the case and conscious in his exposition. He was a cultivated man, a warm-hearted and honest politician, a passionate fighter and a man with a heart as few others had."

During the Romanian Campaign of 1916-1918, when Bucharest was occupied by the Central Powers, Iunian took refuge in Iaşi (where the National Liberal Ion I. C. Brătianu headed government). As the conflict ended and Greater Romania was established, he became enthusiastic with the Poporanist cause of the newly created PŢ, and left the PNL. According to Xeni, he had also grown disenchanted with Brătianu's "dictatorial personality".

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