Anastase Stolojan

[2] In April 1877, he and Alexandru Candiano-Popescu drafted a resolution calling for the government to launch the Romanian War of Independence.

Under Dimitrie A. Sturdza, he was Interior Minister from February to November 1896 and again held the Agriculture portfolio from March 1897 to January 1899.

[4] A distinguished orator, he drew attention for his vigorous objection to a law on mines drafted by Petre P. Carp in 1895.

The proposal indicated that if landowners were unwilling to exploit mines on their property, the state could intervene to force their opening.

This was viewed as an assault on the principle of the inviolability of property, and Stolojan contested it until the end, withdrawing from the chamber while it was being voted on.