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Apr 01, 1865 Șigău, Cluj County, Romania Died on 16 Feb 1934 (aged 68)
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- ?tefan Cicio Pop (April 1, 1865–February 16, 1934) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian politician. Born in ?igau, Cluj County, in the Transylvania region, his maternal grandfather was the Greek-Catholic canon Vasile Pop, who supported the boy's expenses during his school years.
- After attending high school in Gherla and Sibiu, he went to the universities of Vienna and Budapest, obtaining a doctorate in law from the latter institution in 1891.
- The same year, he became a lawyer in Arad.
- He entered the Romanian National Party (PNR) while still a student, and drew notice for championing the defendants in the 1894 Transylvanian Memorandum trial.
- In 1895, together with Gheorghe Pop de Base?ti, he represented the Romanians at the Budapest congress of nationalities.
- Following the PNR's switch to an activist political stance, he sat in the Hungarian House of Representatives from 1905 to 1918.
- He contributed to the press, including the dailies Lupta (Budapest) and Românul (Arad).Pop, as a member of the PNR executive, was involved in the process leading up to and following the union of Transylvania with Romania.
- He attended the party congress in Oradea on October 12, 1918, that adopted the declaration of self-determination for the Romanians and formed an Arad-based action committee that included Pop.
- On October 30, he was named president of the Central Romanian National Council, which took control of the increasingly autonomous Transylvania as Austria-Hungary crumbled near the end of World War I.
- As such, he led negotiations between the PNR and the Socialist Party of Transylvania.
- One day later, on December 1, Pop was at Alba Iulia, where he served as vice president of the Great National Assembly that proclaimed the union.
- According to a source, ?tefan Cicio Pop delayed by a couple of hours the opening of the session of the Great National Assembly and held the inaugural address without being asked to or mandated to do so by the elected President of the Assembly, Gheorghe Pop de Base?ti.
- On December 2, he became vice president and head of the army and public safety department within the Directory Council, the temporary authority of Transylvania. As such, he went to the Parliament of Romania in Bucharest and submitted the legislative proposal for the union, together with Ion Incule? and Ion Nistor, who supplied similar proposals for, respectively, Bessarabia and Bukovina.
- All three were adopted at the end of 1919, in the first parliament of Greater Romania.
- During this time, Pop belonged to three successive cabinets, serving as Minister without portfolio for Transylvania under Ion I.
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- Bratianu (December 1918-September 1919), Artur Vaitoianu (September–November 1919) and Alexandru Vaida-Voievod (December 1919-March 1920).
- He first won a term in the Romanian Assembly of Deputies in 1919.In 1926, after the PNR merged with the Peasants' Party to form the National Peasants' Party, Pop became vice president of the new formation.
- Active as a diplomat, he led the Romanian delegation to the first Balkan Conference, held at Athens in 1930; and to the second, at Istanbul in 1931, where he led the committee for political rapprochement.
- The 1932 conference took place at Bucharest, and Pop was its president.
- He was twice Assembly President: December 1928 to April 1931, and August 1932 to November 1933.
- He died in Arad, days after Vasile Goldi?.
- Among the participants at the funeral were Prime Minister Gheorghe Tatarescu, Iuliu Maniu, Ion Mihalache, Sever Bocu, Alexandru Nicolescu and Nicolae Saveanu.
