Ion Costin

Ion T. Costin
Costin in 1930
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office
1917–1918
Mayor of Chişinău
In office
1933–1937
Preceded byDimitrie Bogos
Succeeded byAlexandru Sibirski
Personal details
Born(1887-01-19)19 January 1887
Ghidighici, Lăpuşna County
Died12 January 1940(1940-01-12) (aged 52)
Bucharest

Ion T. Costin (19 January 1887 – 12 January 1940) was a Bessarabian Romanian politician. He was born at a time when his native region, as the eastern half of Moldavia, had been taken over by the Russian Empire and organized into a Bessarabia Governorate. Following the October Revolution, he took part in the affairs of the Moldavian Democratic Republic as a member of Sfatul Țării, voting for union with the Kingdom of Romania. Active in its politics, he died several months before the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia.

Biography

He served as Director General for Internal Affairs in Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet and Daniel Ciugureanu Cabinet, then worked as a lawyer in Tulcea. He served also as deputy mayor and then Mayor of Chişinău (1933—1937), director of Sfatul Țării (newspaper) and Dreptatea.

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