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| death_date ={{Death date and age|1969|07|09|1884|11|10|df=y}}

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'''Tibor Zsitvay de Zsitvatő''' (10 November 1884 -– 9 July 1969) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] politician and jurist, who served as [[Minister of Justice]] between 1929 and 1932. He finished law studies at the [[University of Budapest]]. He was the counsel of the [[Hungarian Railways]] from 1909 to 1919. After the fall of the [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]] he was one of the founders of the Christian National Party. He was delegated to the position of commissioner of [[Kecskemét]] between 1919 and 1920. He left his party in 1920 and became [[lawyer]] again.

He worked as the attorney general of the MÁV in 1920-261920–26. He became a member of the [[Diet of Hungary]] in 1922 and served as Deputy Speaker in 1924. He served as [[Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary]] between 1926 and 1929. After that he was appointed Minister of Justice by [[István Bethlen]]. Zsitvay held the position in the cabinet of [[Gyula Károlyi]] too. During his ministership, the two communist leaders, [[Sándor Fürst]] and [[Imre Sallai]] were executed. He represented Kecskemét from 1931. He was the leader of the Party of National Unity in [[Budapest]] during this time. heHe left the governing party in 1938. He emigrated to [[Switzerland]] in 1944.

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