Bessarabian politician; graduate of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Imperial University in Sankt Petersburg (1906-1911); collaborator, under pseudonym, at the “Bessarabia” newspaper – the first Romanian-language publication in the province; deputy commissioner of the Bessarabia governorate; he was elected delegate in the Country Council (September 21, 1917 – November 27, 1918) and then its president; on March 27, 1918 he voted the Union of Bessarabia with Romania; Minister without Portfolio in the First Cabinet of Greater Romania; Minister of State for Bessarabia in the Cabinets: Al. Marghiloman, Coanda, I.C. Brătianu, A.Văitoianu (1918-1920); Minister of State in the Cabinets: Vaida-Voevod (1920), Alexandru Averescu (1921), Ion I.C. Bratianu (1926), Minister of Health and Social Care in several cabinets; Minister of Internal Affairs in several governments (1933-1936).