Octavian Utalea

Among the accomplishments of his term in office were the opening of an Army Club (Cerc Militar) in the Reduta Palace and the founding of a School of Fine Arts (today's School of Plastic Arts) in the Central Park.

He obtained his Juris Doctor degree in Cluj in 1905, then the certificate of free practice of law in Târgu Mureș in 1906, after which he settled in Rodna.

At the start of World War I, he was mobilized into the Austro-Hungarian Army and sent to the front with the rank of officer.

In 1929, he was elected to the permanent delegation of the Cluj County organization of the National Liberal Party.

He was a member of ASTRA in Sibiu and of the Virtus Romana Rediviva lecture society in Năsăud.