BRĂTIANU, ION I. C .
After graduating from St. Sava College in Bucharest (1882), in the autumn of 1883 he was sent, together with Eugeniu Carada, to Paris. He attended for a year the mathematics department of Sainte Barbe lyceum, for two years the Polytechnical School, then the school for roads and highways (graduated in 1889). After returning to Romania, he was named an engineer with the Railways Company (1889 - 1895). He joined the National Liberal Party and launched himself into politics; he was elected deputy in 1895. - 31st of March 1897 - 30th of March 1899 - Minister of Public Works. He succeeds in winning to his party the group of intellectuals belonging to the leadership of the Social-Democratic Party of Romanian Workers ("the generous ones"), strengthening the left wing of the National Liberal Party (1900). - 14th of February - 18th of July 1902 - Minister of Public Works. - 9th of January 1902 - 12th of December 1904 - Minister of Foreign Affairs. - 12th of March 1907 - 27th of December 1908 - Minister of Internal Affairs. - 27th of December 1908 - 4th of March 1909 - President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs. - 11th of January 1909 - elected president of the National Liberal Party for life. - 4th of March 1909 - 28th of December 1910 - President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Internal Affairs. - 8th of December 1909 - Attempt on Bratianu's life. After the Balkan wars, by the public letter of 7th of September 1913, he announced the liberal programme: agrarian and election reforms. - 4th of January 1914 - 11th of December 1916 President of the Council of Ministers. - 4th of January 1914 - 15th of August 1916 - Minister of War. - 8th - 11th of December 1916 - Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Bratianu led the affairs of the country during the war entirely, at the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and after the war, organising and structuring the institutions of Greater Romania. - 11th of December 1916 - 26th of January 1918 - President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs. - 29th of November 1918 - 27th of September 1919 - President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs. - 19th of January 1922 - 27th of March 1926 - President of the Council of Ministers. - 19th of January - 25th of March 1922 - Minister of War. - 30th of October 1923 - 27th of March 1926 - Minister of Internal Affairs. - 21st of June - 24th of November 1927 - President of the Council of Ministers. - 21st of June - 6th of July 1927 - Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Honour Member of the Romanian Academy (7th of June 1923). He died from an infectious laryngitis. "He was a master of having his own way without making enemies. I have discovered in him the highest virtues that make of him one of the great statesmen of his generation, greater than the 'three great': Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau. Seems only natural that small countries should foster freat men". Count of Saint-Aulaire, Ambassador of France to Bucharest | |||||||
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