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A Short Biography of Lajos Kossuth

Author Name:

Lajos Kossuth

Born As:

Lajos Kossuth

Other Names:

Lajos Kossuth

Born:

19 Sep 1802

Died:

20 Mar 1894




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Lawyer and freedom fighter                          
                          
The eldest of four children.                          
Regent-President of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1849.

The main square of Budapest with the Hungarian Parliament Building is named after Kossuth, and the Kossuth Memorial is an important scene of national ceremonies. Most cities in Hungary have streets named after Kossuth. The first public statue commemorating Kossuth was erected in Miskolc in 1898. Kossuth Rádió, the main radio station of Hungary, is named after Lajos Kossuth.

A bust of Lajos Kossuth is housed in the US Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., which also boasts a Hungarian-American cultural center called Kossuth House - owned and operated by the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. A statue of Kossuth stands in New York City near the Columbia University campus. An American county, Kossuth County, Iowa, was named in Kossuth's honor. A statue of the freedom fighter stands in front of the county Court House in Algona, Iowa, the county seat. The small USA towns of Kossuth, Ohio and Kossuth, Mississippi are named in honor of Lajos Kossuth. Other statues of Kossuth remain sprinkled throughout the U.S., including in University Circle in Cleveland, Ohio. There is a Kossuth Park at the intersection of East 121st Street and East Shaker Boulevard, just west of Shaker Square, in Cleveland.