Ion Stepanovici Codreanu (born 14 April 1879 ÃÂtefÃÂneÃÂti, FloreÃÂti, Soroca County; died 15 February 1949 Bucharest) was a Moldovan politician.
In 1917, Codreanu was a founding member of the National Moldavian Party. Soon after, he was elected as a member of the Moldovan Parliament.
After the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia in 1940, he became a political prisoner in USSR, but in May 1941, he was exchanged for the Communist Ana Pauker.