István Szabó de Nagyatád (17 September 1863 – 31 October 1924) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture three times: in 1919, between 1920 and 1921 and from 1922 to 1924. He was born into a Hungarian Calvinist family in Erdőcsokonya (now: Csokonyavisonta after the union with Somogyvisonta). After collecting possessions he was elected municipal judge. From 1904 he was active in the assembly of Somogy County's municipal committee. He became a member of the House of Representatives in 1908, after he won the elections against the Independence Party's candidate in the Nagyatád constituency (he obtained his title of nagyatádi then). He was a representative with the program of Alliance of the Smallholders in Somogy County (local organization). In his first speech he asked the MPs that the agrarian worker people must be called smallholder and not as peasant, because the peasant word had a pejorative sound in Transdanubia. As opposed to the socialists () and the civil radicals, he was a supporter of a moderate agrarian reform which was acceptable to the great landowners and the aristocracy too. His ambitions then included the creation of universal suffrage. He criticized the unfair tax system, the function of the fideicommissum familiae. He promoted the co-operatives' foundation, the settlements and the voluntary and partial parceling out of the large estates. He stayed moderate on civil questions and he made the official Hungarian power point of view his own on the nationality question. He won the wealthier, primarily in Transdanubia, peasantry's support with his political performance and the agrarians considered him as their possible ally. In 1909 he founded the National Independence Agrarian Party of 48 in Szentgál. He became a parliamentary representative of his party in the next year (there were two other politicians who gained a seat with the colors of Szabó's association). He served as minister without portfolio managing of the land reform in the Dénes Berinkey cabinet (1919). After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he was the most popular politician in Hungary, so Miklós Horthy invited him to Siófok where the new system was formed. He formed his party with the name of National Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party (OKGFP) in 1920, which won the next parliamentary election. Gyula Rubinek got him to do unification with the United Smallholders and Agrarian Workers Party which led by István Szabó de Sokorópátka. Then he took on