Ștefan Cicio Pop | |
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| Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 1905 – 1918 in the Parliament of Budapest 1919–1933 in the Parliament of Romania | |
| Minister for Transylvania | |
| In office 5 December 1919 – 12 March 1920 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairsad interim | |
| In office 15 January 1920 – 13 March 1920 | |
| President of the Council of Ministersad interim | |
| In office 15 January 1920 – 13 March 1920 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1865-04-01)April 1, 1865 |
| Died | 16 February 1934(1934-02-16) (aged 68) Conop,Arad, Romania |
| Citizenship | Hungary,Romania |
| Nationality | Romanians |
| Political party | Romanian National Party National Peasants' Party |
| Spouse | Eugenia Cicio Pop |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Ștefan Cicio Pop (1 April 1865 – 16 February 1934) was a Romanian politician.
Born inSajgó, Belső-Szolnok County,Principality of Transylvania,Austrian Empire, Pop's maternal grandfather was theGreek-Catholiccanon Vasile Pop,[1] who supported the boy's expenses during his school years.[2] After attending high school in Szamosújvár (Gherla) and Nagyszeben (Sibiu), he went to the universities ofVienna andBudapest, obtaining a doctorate in law from the latter institution in 1891.[1] The same year, he became a lawyer inArad.[2]
Pop entered theRomanian National Party (PNR) while still a student, and drew notice for championing the defendants in the 1894Transylvanian Memorandum trial. In 1895, together withGheorghe Pop de Băsești, he represented the Romanians at the Budapest congress of nationalities. Following the PNR's switch to an activist political stance, Pop sat in theHungarian House of Representatives from 1905 to 1918. He contributed to the press, including the dailiesLupta (Budapest) andRomânul (Arad).[1]
Pop, as a member of the PNR executive, was involved in the process leading up to and following theunion of Transylvania with Romania. He attended the party congress inOradea on 12 October 1918, that adopted the declaration of self-determination for the Romanians and formed an Arad-based action committee that included Pop. On 30 October, he was named president of the Central Romanian National Council, which took control of the increasingly autonomous Transylvania as Austria-Hungary crumbled near the end of World War I. As such, Pop led negotiations between the PNR and theSocialist Party of Transylvania. One day later, on 1 December, Pop was atAlba Iulia, where he served as vice president of theGreat National Assembly of Alba Iulia that proclaimed the union. According to a source, Ștefan Cicio Pop delayed by a couple of hours the opening of the session of the Great National Assembly and held the inaugural address without being asked to or mandated to do so by the elected President of the Assembly, Gheorghe Pop de Băsești.[3] On 2 December, Pop became vice president and head of the army and public safety department within the Directory Council, the temporary authority of Transylvania.[1]
As such, Pop went to theParliament of Romania inBucharest and submitted the legislative proposal for the union, together withIon Inculeț andIon Nistor, who supplied similar proposals for, respectively,Bessarabia andBukovina. All three were adopted at the end of 1919, in the first parliament ofGreater Romania.[1] During this time, Pop belonged to three successive cabinets, serving as Minister without portfolio for Transylvania underIon I. C. Brătianu (December 1918 – September 1919),Artur Văitoianu (September–November 1919) andAlexandru Vaida-Voievod (December 1919 – March 1920).[4] He first won a term in theRomanian Assembly of Deputiesin 1919.[2]
In 1926, after the PNR merged with thePeasants' Party to form theNational Peasants' Party, Pop became vice president of the new formation. Active as a diplomat, he led the Romanian delegation to the first Balkan Conference, held at Athens in 1930; and to the second, at Istanbul in 1931, where he led the committee for political rapprochement. The 1932 conference took place at Bucharest, and Pop was its president. He was twiceAssembly President: December 1928 to April 1931, and August 1932 to November 1933. Pop died in Arad,[1] days afterVasile Goldiș. Among the participants at the funeral were Prime MinisterGheorghe Tătărescu,Iuliu Maniu,Ion Mihalache,Sever Bocu,Alexandru Nicolescu andNicolae Săveanu.[5]
On the occasion of thecentenary of the Great Union, on 26 November 2018, theNational Bank of Romania put into circulation, for the attention of the numismatists, a set of coins; on the obverse of each of the coins in the set are engraved a processing of a photo done bySamoilă Mârza, the texts (in a circle) ROMANIA and THE GREAT MEETING FROM ALBA IULIA, the nominal value, thecoat of arms of Romania and the thousandths (the year of issue) 2018. On the reverse part of each coin is engraved the effigies of Stefan Cicio Pop,Gheorghe Pop de Băsești,Iuliu Maniu,Vasile Goldiș andIuliu Hossu. Gold coins have a nominal value of 500 lei (200 copies), silver coins have a nominal value of 10lei (200 copies), and those of common metal have a nominal value of 50 dollars (5,000 copies), all ofproof quality. In the same set of coins, 1,000,000 medal coins of general UNC quality were issued.[6]
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