Background
He was born into a Hungarian Calvinist noble family in Pest.
He was born into a Hungarian Calvinist noble family in Pest.
He finished his secondary studies at the Buda Royal Grammar School. He graduated on 31 July 1867. He studied law since the next year and finished in 1871.
He was a supporter of Gyula Andrássy the Younger. After obtaining of the leaving certificate he started a work of two-year trainee for György Lövény"s lawyer office. He took the lawyer exam in 1873 and became a public lawyer in 1874.
He opened an own office together with his father in the Inner City.
Senior Darányi died in 1877, so he continued the work alone until 1892. He travelled around Central Europe on ummer 1874 on the way of Vienna-München-Zürich-Bern-Vienna.
On 3 June 1877 the Darányi family got a noble title. He helped in the salvage of Szeged floods in 1878.
Darányi worked as a performer for the Parliamentarian Committee of Transport and Finance from 1882.
He abandoned the lawyer practice in 1892 and bought land in the Kiskunság: he farmed on his possessions of Dunaújfalu, Tök, Tass and Anyácsa. He served as deputy chairman of the Liberal Party since 1893 and as deputy speaker of the House of Representatives in 1895. From 1905 he was an oppositional Member of the European Parliament until 1910 and from this was an independent representative until his death.
Dezső Bánffy appointed him Minister of Agriculture in 1895 and he also hold the position in the Kálmán Széll and the first Károly Khuen-Héderváry cabinets.
He became agriculture minister again in 1906. He took the office untl the resignation of the Sándor Wekerle administration.
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He became secretary of the Egyesült Fővárosi Takarékpénztár in 1875 and a member of the Committee of Budapest Municipality in 1876. After his father"s death he was elected to a directorial member of the National Hungarian Economical Society (OMGE). He was a member of the Council of Budapest Public Works since 1887.
He was a member of the Liberal Party and representative of his party in the Diet of Hungary from 1881 to 1905.
He left the party in 1905 and he was a founding member of the Constitution Party.