He served as Mayor of Bucharest from 1904 to 1907 and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Ialomița County in 1909. He was Justice Minister from December 1910 to January 1914 and again from December 1916 to January 1918 in the national unity government of Ion I. C. Brătianu.
After receiving doctorates in Law and Literature from the University of Paris, he became a prominent member of the Conservative Party. In 1922, together with other members of the late Take Ionescu"s Conservative-Democratic Party, he joined the Romanian National Party, becoming its vice president for the former Old Kingdom.
