Vasile Lucaciu was a Romania

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 priest and an advocate of equal rights with the Hungarians in Transylvania

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He was a member of the National Romanian Party and a co-author of the Transylvanian Memorandum

Transylvanian Memorandum

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(1892). As a consequence, Vasile Lucaciu was tried for "homeland betrayal

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" in Kolozsvár/Cluj

Cluj-Napoca

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 in May 1894 and sentenced to five years in prison. However he was released after one year.

In 1905 he was elected deputy for the Belényes/Beiuş

Beius

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 constituency in the Hungarian

Kingdom of Hungary

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 Parliament.

In March 1917, Vasile Lucaciu was a member of a group of exiled Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation to the United States

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to campaign for Romania's cause.