Pál Sennyey | |
Order: | Speaker of the House of Magnates |
Term Start: | 9 December 1865 |
Term End: | 22 March 1867 |
Predecessor: | György Apponyi |
Successor: | György Majláth Jr. |
Term Start2: | 16 December 1884 |
Term End2: | 3 January 1888 |
Predecessor2: | László Szőgyény-Marich |
Successor2: | Miklós Vay |
Birth Date: | 24 April 1822 |
Birth Place: | Buda, Kingdom of Hungary |
Death Date: | 3 January 1888 (aged 65) |
Death Place: | Battyán, Austria-Hungary |
Profession: | politician |
Party: | Conservative Party, Deák Party, Right-wing Opposition |
Baron Pál Sennyey de Kissennye (24 April 1822 - 3 January 1888) was a Hungarian conservative politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Magnates twice; between 1865 and 1867 and from 1884 to 1888, his death. He also functioned as chairman of the Royal Council of Governor (1865 - 1867), Master of the Treasury (1865 - 1867) and Lord Chief Justice (1884 - 1888).
Sennyey strongly opposed the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He participated in development of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise after 1862. He was the leader of the conservative landowners' Right-wing Opposition which left the governing Liberal Party in 1875.