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FERENCZ LAJOS AKOS KOSSUTH (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 916 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOSSUTH (1841– )  , Hungarian statesman, the son of Lajos See also:Kossuth, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:November 1841, and educated at the See also:Paris See also:Polytechnic and the See also:London University, where in 1859 he won a See also:prize for See also:political See also:economy . After working as a See also:civil engineer on the See also:Dean See also:Forest railway he went (1861) to See also:Italy, where he resided for the next See also:thirty-three years, taking a considerable See also:part in the railway construction of the See also:peninsula, and at the same See also:time keeping alive the Hungarian See also:independence question by a whole See also:series of See also:pamphlets and newspaper articles . At See also:Cesena in 1876 he married Emily Hoggins . In 1885 he was decorated for his services by the See also:Italian See also:government . His last See also:great See also:engineering See also:work was the construction of the See also:steel See also:bridges for the See also:Nile . In 1894 he escorted his See also:father's remains to See also:Hungary, and the following See also:year resolved to See also:settle in his native See also:land and took the See also:oath of See also:allegiance . As See also:early as 1867 he had been twice elected a member of the Hungarian See also:diet, but on both occasions refused to accept the See also:mandate . On the loth of See also:April 1895 he was returned for Tapolca and in 1896 for Cegled, and from that time took an active part in Hungarian politics . In the autumn of 1898 he became the See also:leader of the obstructionists or " Independence Party," against the successive Szell, Khuen-Hadervary, Szapary and See also:Stephen See also:Tisza administrations (1898—1904), exercising great See also:influence not only in See also:parliament but upon the public at large through his articles in the Egyetertes . The elections of 1905 having sent his party back with a large See also:majority, he was received in See also:audience by the See also:king and helped to construct the See also:Wekerle See also:ministry, of which he was one of the most distinguished members . See See also:Sturm, The Almanack of the Hungarian Diet (1905-1910), See also:art . " Kossuth " (Hung.) (See also:Budapest, 1905) .

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