Career
Nagy was reported to be of peasant origins. Later he served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 4 February 1946 to 31 May 1947. He was elected in 1946, in Hungary"s first democratic election.
As prime minister, he resisted attempts by the Hungarian Communist Party to gain complete control of the government.
Subsequently he was granted asylum in the United States. Nagy documented his life and political career in The Struggle behind the Iron Curtain, published by MacMillan in 1948.
In 1959, he was reported to have been the president of Permindex, a trade organization headquartered in Basel, Switzerland
Royalties from his memoirs helped him buy a house with a substantial garden plot in Herndon, Virginia (then an exurb of Washington, District of Columbia), there to live out his days.