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CATARGIU (or CATARGI), See also:LASCAR (1823-1899)  , Rumanian statesman, was See also:born in See also:Moldavia in See also:November 1823 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 18o7), a noted journalist and politician, who was assassinated at See also:Bucharest on the loth of See also:June 1862 . On the See also:accession of Prince See also:Charles in May 1866, See also:Lascar Catargiu became See also:president of the See also:council, or See also:prime See also:minister; but, finding himself unable to co-operate with his Liberal colleagues, I . C . See also:Bratianu and C . A . Rosetti, he resigned in See also:July .

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 . 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by the Liberals, who resumed See also:office in 1876; and a proposal to impeach the whole Catargiu cabinet was only withdrawn in 1878 . 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 . In the Florescu See also:ministry of See also:March 1891 he occupied the same position, and in See also:December he again became president of the council, retaining office until 1895 . During this See also:period he was responsible for several useful reforms, chiefly See also:financial and commercial: He died suddenly at Bucharest on the 1rth of See also:April 1899 .

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