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

Ferenc Nagy (boxer)

Ferenc Nagy was a Hungarian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was born in Cegléd.In 1936 he finished fourth in the heavyweight class. After his win in the quarterfinals against Olle Tandberg he was neither able to fight in the semifinal bout to Herbert Runge nor in the bronze medal...

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Ferenc Nagy (8 October 1903 – 12 June 1979) was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 politician of the Smallholders Party

Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party

The Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party is a political party in Hungary...

. 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

High National Council

High National Council was the collective head of state of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1945 until 1946.-Members of the first 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

Hungarian Communist Party

The Communist Party of Hungary , renamed Hungarian Communist Party in 1945, was founded on November 24, 1918, and was in power in Hungary briefly from March to August 1919 under Béla Kun and the Hungarian Soviet Republic. The communist government was overthrown by the Romanian Army and driven...

 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

Permindex

Permindex was a trade organization created in 1958 by Canadian lawyer Louis Bloomfield who became its president and chairman of its board. Its name was a contraction of "Permanent Industrial Expositions".- De Gaulle assassination attempt allegations :...

 and a long-time asset of CIA Deputy Director of Plans, Frank Wisner

Frank Wisner

Frank Gardiner Wisner was head of Office of Strategic Services operations in southeastern Europe at the end of World War II, and the head of the Directorate of Plans of the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1950s....

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

Macmillan Publishers

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 in 1948.

Royalties from his memoirs helped him buy a house with a substantial garden plot in Herndon, Virginia

Herndon, Virginia

Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area of the United States. The population was 21,655 at the 2000 census, which makes it the largest of three towns in the county.-History:...

 (then an exurb of Washington, D.C.), there to live out his days.

Further reading

Audiobook on tape : Lectures, speeches; English.