Ion Pelivan

Ion Gheorghe Pelivan (April 1, 1876 – January 25, 1954) was a Romanian politician.

Ion Pelivan
Minister of Justice of Romania
In office 5 December 1919 – 12 March 2020
Prime Minister	Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Director General for Foreign Affairs
In office 1917–1918
President	Ion Inculeț
Prime Minister	Pantelimon Erhan Daniel Ciugureanu
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1917–1918
Personal details
Born	(1876-04-01)April 1, 1876 Răzeni, Bessarabia, Russian Empire
Died	January 25, 1954(1954-01-25) (aged 77) Sighet Prison, Romanian People's Republic
Resting place	Cernica Monastery
Political party	National Moldavian Party National Peasants' Party
Alma mater	Dorpat University
Profession	Jurist

He was born in Răzeni, Bessarabia, the son of Gheorghe Pelivan and his wife, Eugenia Varuh Titica.^[1] He graduated in 1898 from the Theological Seminary of Chișinău and in 1903 he received a law degree from the University of Tartu. Subsequently, he worked as jurist in Bălți.

During 1917–1918, Pelivan served as Foreign Minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic in the Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet and the Daniel Ciugureanu Cabinet.

He was arrested in May 1950 by the Romanian communist authorities and sent to Sighet Prison in Sighetu Marmației, where he died in 1954. He is buried at Cernica Monastery in Pantelimon, Ilfov.^[2]

A street in the Buiucani Sector of Chișinău was named in his honor, and the theoretical high school in the village where he was born, Răzeni, Ialoveni District, bears his name.^[3] The village Pelivan in Orhei District, Moldova was named after him in 1932.^[4]