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See also:CATARGIU (or CATARGI), See also:LASCAR (1823-1899)
, Rumanian statesman, was See also:born in See also:Moldavia in See also:November 1823
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He belonged to an See also:ancient Walachian See also:family, one of whose members had been banished in the 17th See also:century by See also:Prince See also:Matthew Bassaraba, and had settled in Moldavia
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Under Prince See also:Gregory See also:Ghica (1849-1856), See also:Catargiu See also:rose to be See also:prefect of See also:police at See also:Jassy
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In 1857 he became a member of the See also:Divan ad hoc of Moldavia, a See also:commission elected in accordance with the treaty of See also:Paris (1856) to See also:vote on the proposed See also:union of Moldavia and See also:Walachia
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His strongly conservative views, especially on agrarian reform, induced the Conservatives to support him as a See also:candidate for the See also:throne in 18J9
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During the reign of Prince See also:Cuza (1859-1866), Catargiu was one of the Opposition leaders, and received much assistance from his kinsman, Barbu Catargiu (b
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18o7), a noted journalist and politician, who was assassinated at See also:Bucharest on the loth of See also:June 1862
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On the See also:accession of Prince See also:
After eight more ministerial changes, culminating in the See also:anti-dynastic agitation of 1870-1871, Catargiu formed, for the first See also:time in Rumanian See also:history, a See also:stable Conservative See also:cabinet, which lasted until 1876
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His policy, which averted revolution and revived the popularity of the See also:crown, was regarded as unpatriotic and reactionary by the Liberals, who resumed See also:office in 1876; and a proposal to impeach the whole Catargiu cabinet was only withdrawn in 1878
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Catargiu remained in opposition until 1889, when he formed another cabinet, taking the See also:portfolio of the Interior; but this See also:administration See also:fell after seven months
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