Constantin Vişoianu

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Constantin Vişoianu (b. February 4, 1897 in Urlaţi, Prahova County, Romania - d. January 4, 1994 in Washington, D.C., United States) was a Romanian jurist, diplomat and politician.

He studied at the University of Bucharest and got a doctor's degree in Law at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Constantin Vişoianu was technical advisor at the League of Nations. From 1931 to 1933 he was member of the Romanian permanent delegation to the Conference on Disarmament. The was therafter appointed minister plenipotentiary to The Hague (1933-1935) and Warsaw (1935-1936)

He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 4, 1944 to March 5, 1945. Forced to flee from Romania when the Communist party rose to power, Constantin Vişoianu was chairman of the National Romanian Committee from 1948 to 1975.

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• Stan Stoica - Dicţionar biografic de istorie a României (Ed. Meronia, Bucureşti, 2008)