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Istvn Szab de Nagyatd was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture three times in 1919, between 1920 and 1921 and from 1922 to 1924.

He was born into a Hungarian Calvinist family in Erdcsokonya . After collecting possessions he was elected municipal judge. From 1904 he politicizied in the assembly of Somogy Countys municipal committee. He became a member of the House of Representatives in 1908, after he won the elections opposite the Independence Partys candidate in the Nagyatd constituency . He was a representative with the program of Alliance of the Smallholders in Somogy County . In his first speech he asked the MEPs that the agrarian worker people must called smallholder and not as peasant, because the peasant word was with a pejorative sound in the Transdanubia. As opposed to the socialists and the civil radicalists he was a supporter of a moderate agrarian reform which was acceptable for the great landowners and the aristocracy too. But in the first times his ambitious include the creation of the universal suffrage. He criticized the unfair tax system, the function of the fideicommissum familiae. He promoted

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