Born in Mârzănești, Teleorman County,[1] he attended a normal school and entered Alexandru Averescu's People's Party.
He later joined Octavian Goga's National Agrarian Party, which subsequently merged with the National-Christian Defense League to form the National Christian Party.
He took part in the 1938 formation of the National Renaissance Front, the sole party under King Carol II.
[2] He served as Minister of Labor in two cabinets during the summer of 1940: under Ion Gigurtu from 4 July to 4 September,[4][1] and under Ion Antonescu from 4 to 14 September until the establishment of the National Legionary State.
[5] Arrested under the new communist regime, he was sent to Sighet Prison in May 1950, and died there nearly two years later.