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ODON See also:BEOTHY (1796-18J4)
, Hungarian See also:deputy and orator, was See also:born at Grosswardein, his See also:father being a retired officer and deputy See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of the See also:county of Bihar
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At the See also:age of sixteen he served in the See also:war against See also:Napoleon, and was See also:present at the See also:great See also:battle of See also:Leipzig
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Like so many others of his compatriots, he picked up Liberal ideas abroad
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He was sent to See also:parliament by his county in 1826 and again in 183o, but did not become generally known till the session of 1832-1836, when along with See also:Deak he, as a liberal See also:Catholic, defended the See also:Protestant point of view in " the mixed marriages question." He was also an energetic See also:advocate of freedom of speech
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After parliament See also:rose he carried his principles to their logical conclusion by marrying a Protestant See also:lady and, being denied a blessing on the occasion by an indignant See also:bishop, publicly declared that he could very well dispense with such blessings
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In 1841 he was elected deputy lord-lieutenant of his county to counteract the See also:influence of the
lord-lieutenant, Lajos See also:Tisza, and powerfully promoted the popular cause by his eloquence and agitation
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After 1843 the conservatives succeeded in excluding him both from parliament and from his See also:official position in the county; but during the famous " See also: See Antal Cscngery, Hungarian Orators and Statesmen (Hung., See also:Budapest, 1851) . (R . N . |
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