Ferenc Nagy

Ferenc Nagy
1st Prime Minister of the Second Hungarian Republic
In office 4 February 1946 – 31 May 1947 (&100000000000000010000001 year, &10000000000000116000000116 days)
Preceded by	Zoltán Tildy
Succeeded by	Lajos Dinnyés
Personal details
Born	8 October 1903(1903-10-08) Bisse, Austria-Hungary
Died	12 June 1979(1979-06-12) (aged 75) Herndon, United States
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	Smallholders Party

This article is about the politician. For the boxer see Ferenc Nagy (boxer).

The native form of this personal name is Nagy Ferenc. This article uses the Western name order.

Ferenc Nagy (8 October 1903 – 12 June 1979) was a Hungarian politician of the Smallholders Party. He was a Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 29 November 1945 to 5 February 1946 and a member of the High National Council from 7 December 1945 to 2 February 1946.

Later he served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 4 February 1946 to 31 May 1947. He was elected in 1946, in Hungary's first democratic election. As prime minister, he resisted attempts by the Hungarian Communist Party to gain complete control of the government. He refused attempts by the Communists to become a puppet of a Soviet backed police state, but resigned under duress (they had kidnapped his son). He gave up the premiership in return for his son and 300,000 Swiss francs. Subsequently he was granted asylum in the United States, where he became a board member of Permindex and a long-time asset of CIA Deputy Director of Plans, Frank Wisner.

He documented his life and political career in The Struggle behind the Iron Curtain, published by MacMillan in 1948.

Royalties from his memoirs helped him buy a house with a substantial garden plot in Herndon, Virginia (then an exurb of Washington, D.C.), there to live out his days.

Further reading

• Nagy, Ferenc; Stephen K Swift (1948). The struggle behind the Iron Curtain.. New York: Macmillan Company. OCLC 186311583. 
• Nagy, Ferenc (1963). The statesman in the free world and in communism. OCLC 24070950.  Audiobook on tape : Lectures, speeches; English.
• Nagy, Ferenc (1990) (in Hungarian). Küzdelem a vasfüggöny mögött. Budapest: Európa : História. ISBN 9789630751711. OCLC 24084729. 
• Vida, István (1990). Ferenc Nagy, a Hungarian agrar-democrat in the first half of the 20th Century : (sketch of his portrait). Budapest: Történettudományi Intézet. OCLC 38784552. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no:038784552. Retrieved 27 October 2008. 
• Csicsery-Rónay, István (1995) (in Hungarian). Nagy Ferenc miniszterelnök : visszamelékezések, tanulmányok, cikkek. Budapest: Ezerkilencszáznegyvenöt Alapítvány : Occidental Press. ISBN 9789637871054. OCLC 36083793. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no:036083793. Retrieved 27 January 2008. 
• Csicsery-Rónay, István (2005) (in Hungarian). A történelem szolgálatában : (tanulmányok, cikkek, beszédek). Budapest: Occidental Press. ISBN 9789637871269. OCLC 78888454. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no:078888454. Retrieved 27 January 2008. 

External Links

• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Ference (SIC) Nagy" is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]

Political offices
Preceded by Béla Zsedényi Provisional National Assembly	Speaker of the National Assembly 1945–1946	Succeeded by Béla Varga
Preceded by Zoltán Tildy	Prime Minister of Hungary 1946–1947	Succeeded by Lajos Dinnyés
Preceded by Jenő Tombor	Minister of Defence Acting 1946	Succeeded by Albert Bartha