Horvath, Janos

Youth

He served as a scout since 1933 . He joined the Calvinist youth movement in 1936-1939. He was chairman of the Soli Deo Gloria College in 1938-1939.

In 1940 , he graduated from the School of Commerce of Count Istvan Secheni in Budapest . He worked at Nostra General Public Company Warehouse until 1947, first as an accountant, then as deputy chief accountant, and finally as president of the company. At this time, he also studied, graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Jozsef Nador University of Technology and Economics in 1946 .

Political career

In 1942 , Horvath joined the Independent Party of Small Masters (FKGP). He was also a member of the Alliance of Peasants. He took part in the national resistance in 1944 against the regime of Crossed Arrows as a member of the student movement “Free Life”. He was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, however, successfully escaped from prison.

After the end of World War II , he was elected to the Budapest Municipal Committee. He served as director of economic policy of the Hungarian Peasants' Union from May 1945 to 1947 . In February 1945, he was appointed head of the XIII Budapest District branch of the Independent Party of Smallholders. November 4, 1945 became a member of the Provisional National Assembly. During his tenure, he became a friend of the Prime Minister Ferenc Nadia .

He was arrested on January 16, 1947 on trumped-up charges in the Hungarian Society (Magyar Közösség) case, and was sentenced to four years of forced labor. Expelled from the Independent Party of Independent Smallholders. He got out of prison in 1951 . After that, he worked as a handyman since 1951 and as a mechanic since 1954.

During the Hungarian uprising of 1956, he participated in the reorganization of the Hungarian Union of Peasants. He became the managing director of the National Economic Council for Reconstruction. He also joined the restored FKGP and became its leader in the XIII district. After the uprising was crushed, he left the country with his wife on November 4, 1956 .

After 1956

November 9 arrived in New York . He was one of the founders of the Hungarian Revolutionary Council. In 1966 he received his doctorate from Columbia University . In the same year he became president of the Kossuth Foundation . In 1968 he became a professor at Butler University . In 1971 - 1972 he worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Communist Affairs at Columbia University. In 1983 he founded the trading company Indianapolis Export Trading Company.

In the 1992 United States House of Representatives in Indiana, he lost to Andrew Jacobs the Younger.

In 1997 , Horvath returned to Hungary at the invitation of Victor Orban , the leader of the FIDES party. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Economics and Public Administration in Budapest, where he lectured as a visiting professor. Since 1999 - Chairman of the Hungarian Economic Union and member of the Society for Cultural Exchange. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books and several hundred articles. He served as chairman of the FIDES party economic policy committee.

In 1998 he was elected to the National Assembly . Member of the Committee on Economics from June 25, 1998 to May 14, 2002. He served as chairman of the Subcommittee on European Integration, and subsequently became a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

• Theory of Institutional Inflation
• Grants economics
• Industrial concentration
• Tiltott történelmünk, 1945-1947 ; szerk. Horváth János; Századvég, Bp., 2006
• The legacy of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. With significant documents. Five participants forty years later ; többekkel; szerk. Nagy Károly, Peter Pastor, ill. Szalay Lajos; Magyar Öregdiák Szövetség Bessenyei György Kör, New Brunswick, 2010
• Élő történelem. Horváth Jánossal, a parlamenti képviselők doyenével beszélget Spangel Péter ; Kairosz, Bp., 2012 ( Magyarnak lenni )

• Nemzetgyűlés almanachja (1945-47)
• Életrajza az 1945-1947-es országgyűlés almanachjában
• Horváth János országgyűlési adatlapja