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First Ion I. C. Brătianu cabinet

government of Romania from December 1908 to March 1909

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ18538320 ↗
Source-derived summary

The first cabinet of Ion I. C. Brătianu was the government of Romania from 27 December 1908 to 4 March 1909.

Composition

The ministers of the cabinet were as follows:

President of the Council of Ministers:

Ion I. C. Brătianu (27 December 1908 - 4 March 1909)

Minister of the Interior:

Ion I. C. Brătianu (27 December 1908 - 4 March 1909)

Minister of Foreign Affairs:

(interim) Ion I. C. Brătianu (27 December 1908 - 4 March 1909)

Minister of Finance:

Emil Costinescu (27 December 1908 - 4 March 1909)

Minister of Justice:

Toma Stelian (27 December 1908 - 4 March 1909)

Minister of Religious Affairs and Public Instruction:

Spiru Haret (27 December 1908 - 4 March 1909)

Minister of War:

Gen.

Editorial summary

“First Ion I. C. Brătianu cabinet” enters the record as government of Romania from December 1908 to March 1909. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what First, Brătianu and cabinet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1909—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-12-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around First, Brătianu and cabinet.
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Why this record matters

“First Ion I. C. Brătianu cabinet” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, First, Brătianu and cabinet provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18538320. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908 and 1909.

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This entry incorporates text from “First Ion I. C. Brătianu cabinet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.