Vintilă Brătianu Explained

Birthname:Vintilă Ion Constantin Brătianu
Order:Prime Minister of Romania
Term Start:24 November 1927
Term End:9 November 1928
Predecessor:Ion I. C. Brătianu
Successor:Iuliu Maniu
Order2:Minister of Finance
Term Start2:22 June 1927
Term End2:3 November 1928
Predecessor2:Mihai Popovici
Successor2:Mihai Popovici
Order3:Minister of War
Term Start3:15 August 1916
Term End3:19 July 1917
Predecessor3:Ion I. C. Brătianu
Successor3:Constantin Iancovescu
Office4:Mayor of Bucharest
Term Start4:June 1907
Term End4:February 1910
Predecessor4:C. Costescu Comăneanu
Successor4:Procop Ion Dumitrescu
Birth Date:September 16, 1867
Birth Place:Ștefănești, Argeș County, Romania
Death Place:Râmnicu Vâlcea, Kingdom of Romania
Spouse:Lia Stolojan
Children:Vintilă V. Brătianu
Parents:Ion C. Brătianu, Pia Brătianu

Vintilă Ion Constantin Brătianu (16 September 1867 – 22 December 1930) was a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between 24 November 1927 and 9 November 1928. He and his brothers Ion I. C. Brătianu and Dinu Brătianu were the leaders of the National Liberal Party of Romania, founded by their father, Ion C. Brătianu.

Biography

Born at his family's estate of Florica, in Ștefănești, Argeș County, Vintilă Brătianu started his studies at Saint Sava High School in Bucharest. He then went to France to study engineering at École Centrale Paris from 1886 to 1890. After returning to Romania, he entered politics.

From 1907 to 1911 he was Mayor of Bucharest.[1] During World War I, he was Minister of War (15 August 1916–19 July 1917) and then Minister for War Munitions.

After the war, he served as Finance Minister (19 January 1922–9 March 1926) in the Liberal government led by his brother, Ion.[2] After his brother died on 24 November 1927, he assumed the post of Prime Minister of Romania until he was forced to resign a year later to allow the new National Peasants' Party government of Iuliu Maniu to take office. In November 1927 he also assumed the presidency of the National Liberal Party; he remained in that position until the end of his life.

On 22 December 1930 Brătianu was at his estate in Mihăești, Vâlcea, when he had a stroke of apoplexy which paralyzed his left side; he died that evening at the hospital in nearby Râmnicu Vâlcea.[3] He is buried at the family estate, Florica, in a crypt where also lie his father Ion C. Brătianu and his brother Ion I. C. Brătianu,[4] as well as his other brother, Dinu Brătianu, and his nephew, Gheorghe I. Brătianu, both of whom died in the early 1950s at Sighet Prison.[5]

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  1. Web site: Primar de București. Cine-a fost dezvoltatorul imobiliar care i-a forțat pe bucureșteni să se spele și pe subalterni să nu ia șpagă? . Olivia. Tulbure. Adevărul. 15 April 2011. ro. 22 May 2020.
  2. Web site: Vintilă I.C. Brătianu – o personalitate. Mircea . Dumitriu. România Liberă. 22 April 2006. ro. 22 May 2020.
  3. Web site: Vintilă Brătianu dies of apoplexy. Passing of Former Premier of Rumania Ends Epoch in History of Country. The New York Times. 17. 23 December 1930. 22 May 2020.
  4. Book: Scurtu, Ioan . Politică și viață cotidiană în România: în secolul al XX-lea și începutul celui de-al XXI-lea . Mica Valahie . București . 2011 . 978-606-8304-34-2 . 811727423 . ro . 55.
  5. Web site: Domeniul Florica – ferma, conacul și capela Brătienilor (II). Cotidianul. 26 April 2020. Narcis Dorin. Ion. ro. 22 May 2020.