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{{short description|Romanian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Take Ionescu
| nationality         = [[Romania]]n
| smallimage          =
| image               = Take Ionescu 1913.jpg
| image_size          = 240px
| caption             = Take Ionescu in 1913
| order               = [[Prime Minister of Romania]]
| term_start          = 17 December 1921
| term_end            = 19 January 1922
| vicepresident       =
| deputy              =
| predecessor         = [[Alexandru Averescu]]
| successor           = [[Ion I. C. Brătianu]]
| monarch             = [[Ferdinand of Romania|Ferdinand]]
| order2              = [[List of Romanian Foreign Ministers|Foreign Affairs Minister of Romania]]
| term_start2         = 13 June 1920
| term_end2           = 16 December 1921
| predecessor2        = [[Duiliu Zamfirescu]]
| successor2          = [[Gheorghe Derussi]]
| monarch2            = [[Ferdinand I of Romania]]
| birth_date          = 25 October 1858
| birth_place         = [[Ploiești]], [[Wallachia]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|1922|06|21|1858|10|25}}
| death_place         = [[Rome]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
| birthname           = Dumitru Ghiță Ioan
| constituency        =
| party               = [[National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875)|National Liberal Party]]<br />[[Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918)|Conservative Party]]<br />[[Conservative-Democratic Party]]
| spouse              = Bessie Richards (desc.)<br />Alexandrina Ecaterina Woroniecki (Adina Olmazu)
| profession          = lawyer, journalist
| signature           =
| footnotes           = |
}}
'''Take''' or '''Tache Ionescu''' ({{IPA|ro|ˈtake joˈnesku}}; born '''Dumitru Ghiță Ioan''' and also known as '''Demetriu G. Ionnescu'''; {{OldStyleDate|25 October|1858|13 October}} – 21 June 1922) was a [[Romania]]n [[Centrism|centrist]] politician, journalist, lawyer and diplomat, who also enjoyed reputation as a short story author. Starting his political career as a [[Liberalism and radicalism in Romania|radical]] member of the [[National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875)|National Liberal Party]] (PNL), he joined the [[Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918)|Conservative Party]] in 1891, and became noted as a [[Social conservatism|social conservative]] expressing support for several [[Progressivism|progressive]] and [[Nationalism|nationalist]] tenets. Ionescu is generally viewed as embodying the rise of [[middle-class]] politics inside the early 20th century [[Kingdom of Romania]] (occasionally described as ''Takism''), and, throughout the period, promoted a project of [[Balkans|Balkan]] alliances while calling for measures to incorporate the Romanian-inhabited [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] regions of [[Transylvania]], [[Banat]] and [[Bukovina]]. Representing his own faction inside the Conservative Party, he clashed with the group's leadership in 1907–1908, and consequently created and led his own [[Conservative-Democratic Party]].

An [[Anglophile]] promoting an alliance with the [[Triple Entente]], he rallied politicians and intellectuals in support for the idea of Romania entering [[World War I]]. When this was accomplished through the [[Romanian Campaign (World War I)|1916–1918 campaign]], Ionescu joined the [[Ion I. C. Brătianu]] government in [[Iași]] as [[Minister without portfolio]]. After his country was defeated by the [[Central Powers]] and signed the [[Treaty of Bucharest, 1918|Treaty of Bucharest]], he left for [[Paris]] and [[London]], organizing a Romanian National Committee to campaign for [[Greater Romania]] during the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Peace Conference]]. In 1919, his Conservative-Democrats formed an alliance with the [[People's Party (interwar Romania)|People's League]], and Ionescu became [[List of Romanian Foreign Ministers|Foreign Affairs Minister]] in the second [[Alexandru Averescu]] executive, before briefly holding the office of [[Prime Minister of Romania|Premier]] in 1921–1922. During the period, he successfully campaigned in favor of the [[Little Entente]].

He was the brother of renowned surgeon and political activist [[Thoma Ionescu]], who was his collaborator on several political projects. Take Ionescu is also remembered for promoting [[Nicolae Titulescu]], who went on to have a successful career as a diplomat and politician, and for his friendships with the dramatist [[Ion Luca Caragiale]] and the [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greek]] politician [[Eleftherios Venizelos]].