 He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies during the 1992 elections, and again in 1996 to the Romanian Senate as a senator from Arad County.Ioan Alexandru graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Romanian Language and Literature in 1968.His debut poem was published in the "Tribuna" magazine in 1960, but his first collection of poems was published in book form in 1964 under the title "Cum să vă spun".