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KOSSUTH, FERENCZ LAJOS AKOS (1841– )

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KOSSUTH, FERENCZ LAJOS AKOS (1841– ) , Hungarian statesman, the son of Lajos Kossuth, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:November 1841, and educated at the See also:Paris See also:Polytechnic and the See also:London University, where in 1859 he won a See also:prize for See also:political See also:economy. After working as a See also:civil engineer on the See also:Dean See also:Forest railway he went (1861) to See also:Italy, where he resided for the next See also:thirty-three years, taking a considerable See also:part in the railway construction of the See also:peninsula, and at the same See also:time keeping alive the Hungarian See also:independence question by a whole See also:series of See also:pamphlets and newspaper articles. At See also:Cesena in 1876 he married Emily Hoggins. In 1885 he was decorated for his services by the See also:Italian See also:government. His last See also:great See also:engineering See also:work was the construction of the See also:steel See also:bridges for the See also:Nile. In 1894 he escorted his See also:father's remains to See also:Hungary, and the following See also:year resolved to See also:settle in his native See also:land and took the See also:oath of See also:allegiance. As See also:early as 1867 he had been twice elected a member of the Hungarian See also:diet, but on both occasions refused to accept the See also:mandate. On the loth of See also:April 1895 he was returned for Tapolca and in 1896 for Cegled, and from that time took an active part in Hungarian politics. In the autumn of 1898 he became the See also:leader of the obstructionists or " Independence Party," against the successive Szell, Khuen-Hadervary, Szapary and See also:Stephen See also:Tisza administrations (1898—1904), exercising great See also:influence not only in See also:parliament but upon the public at large through his articles in the Egyetertes. The elections of 1905 having sent his party back with a large See also:majority, he was received in See also:audience by the See also:king and helped to construct the See also:Wekerle See also:ministry, of which he was one of the most distinguished members. See See also:Sturm, The Almanack of the Hungarian Diet (1905-1910), See also:art. " Kossuth " (Hung.) (See also:Budapest, 1905).

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