Alexandru Marghiloman

1. ALEXANDRU MARGHILOMAN
Alexandru Marghiloman born on July 4, 1854 Buzău, Ţara Românească - died on May 10,
1925, Buzău, Romania was a Romanian conservative stateman who served as prime
minister of Romania in 1918 from March to November and played a decisive role during
the First World War.
Alexandru Marghiloman was born on 4 July 1854 in Buzau in a rural bourgeois family.
His father, Iancu Marghiloman, was a great tenant of Wallachia, and his mother, Irina
Izvoranu, was part of a wealthy family in Oltenia. About Iancu Marghiloman, Duiliu
Zamfirescu would write: "Californian colon, tenant, entrepreneur, Bărăgan hunter, card
player, prefect - in the best relations with the world of Bucharest, ministers, deputies
and senators, and with the province world; voters, subprefessors, horse thieves ".
Alexandru Marghiloman attended St. Sava College in Bucharest, and then enrolled
at the Law School and the High School of Political Science in Paris. After graduation,
in 1879 Alexandru Marghiloman will be a prosecutor and then a judge at the Ilfov
Tribunal. In 1881, he would resign to become a lawyer, for three years later to be
appointed state lawyer. On November 6, 1884, Alexandru Marghiloman is elected a
deputy in the First College of Buzau.