
Janos Horvath (7 November 1921-25 November 2019) was a Hungarian FKGP and Fidesz MP from 4 November 1945 to 16 January 1947 and from 18 June 1998 to 5 May 2014.
Biography[]
Janos Horvath was born in Cece, Hungary on 7 November 1921 to a Calvinist family, and he was a member of Protestant youth movements during the 1930s before joining the FKGP in 1942 and participating in the anti-Arrow Cross Party resistance during World War II. He went on to serve in the National Assembly from 1945 to 1947, and he was arrested on trumped-up charges in 1947 and released in 1951. Following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he fled to the United States, becoming a professor at Butler University in 1968. In 1992, he launched a failed Republican bid for the US House of Representatives in Indiana, and he returned to Hungary in 1997 at the invitation of Fidesz leader Viktor Orban. He served as a Fidesz MP from 1998 to 2014, and he died in 2019 at the age of 98.