Education
He studied law, entered the government service and became Viscount (vicecomes) of Heves County.
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He studied law, entered the government service and became Viscount (vicecomes) of Heves County.
Born into a prominent Hungarian noble family and large estate owners. He was a cousin of Count Frigyes Szapáry, who served as Ambassador at Saint St. Petersburg at the outbreak of World War I.
Szapáry married Countess Karolina Festetics de Tolna (1838–1919). They had seven children (including Lőrinc Szapáry).
His great-grandchild is György Szapáry economist, former deputy governor of the Hungarian National Bank and current ambassador to the United States since 2011.
Political career
He spent nine legislative sessions for the Liberal Party as a representative in the Diet of Hungary. He was elected Count (comes) of Heves in 1867.
In 1870 he became Secretary to the Transport Ministry, Interior Minister in 1873, finance minister from 1878 to 1887 in the cabinet of Kálmán Tisza, then also Minister for Transport and Minister of Agriculture from 1889. During his tenure as prime minister of Hungary from 13 March 1890 to 17 November 1892 were laws to promote the industrial, social reform and currency reform, switching silver-based Forint to the gold-based Korona, to be carried out by Finance Minister Sándor Wekerle.
Szapáry was a less than outstanding, cautious conservative politicians, technocratic, or bureaucrat described, but he was able to rely on experienced ministers, which he had largely taken from the Tisza government.
Therefore, his government was essentially also the policy of his predecessor. Sándor Wekerle succeeded him. The relative success of his government was possible due to the high ministers.
Szapáry was appointed Master of the Treasury in 1900.
He served as president of the Cr Bank since 1904.
Wekerle, Dezső Szilágyi, Gábor Baross and Albin Csáky were all members of his cabinet.