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Aleksa Simić ( Boljevci, March 18, 1800 – Belgrade, March 17, 1872) was a Serbian politician serving as
Biography of Aleksa Simić
Aleksa Simić, biography
Aleksa Simić ( Boljevci, March 18, 1800 – Belgrade, March 17, 1872) was a Serbian politician serving as Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...
on three terms and Government Minister on multiple terms.
Biography
Simić was a part of the ''Ustavobranioci'' group, known as the Defenders of the Constitution. Aleksa first came to thePrincipality of Serbia
The Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Књажество Србија, Knjažestvo Srbija) was an autonomous state in the Balkans that came into existence as a result of the Serbian Revolution, which lasted between 1804 and 1817. Its creation wa ...
from Srem
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, then a Habsburg-occupied territory, in 1819. He was hired as a clerk in the office of Prince Miloš Obrenović. In 1835, Simić becomes the Minister of Finance, and in 1842 he served as Prince Miloš's diplomatic envoy in negotiations with the Ottomans at Constantinople. In 1843 he becomes the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Serbia.
His older brother, Stojan Simić, was also a politician and a businessman. Both brothers owed to Miloš Obrenović
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their rise from humble beginnings to great wealth and power. His nephew was Đorđe Simić, who held the post of Prime Minister of Serbia.
See also
* List of prime ministers of Serbia * Avram Petronijević *Toma Vučić-Perišić Toma or TOMA may refer to:
Places
*Toma, Burkina Faso, a town in Nayala province
*Toma Department, a department in Nayala province
* Toma, Banwa, Burkina Faso, a town
* Tōma, Hokkaidō, Japan, a town
** Tōma Station, its railway station
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* Dimitrije Davidović
Dimitrije "Mita" Davidović (Zemun, Habsburg monarchy, 12 October 1789 – Smederevo, Principality of Serbia, 24 March 1838) was a Serbian politician serving as the Prime Minister of Serbia, Minister of Education and chief secretary of cabinet ...
* Ilija Garašanin
Ilija Garašanin ( sr-cyr, Илија Гарашанин; 28 January 1812 – 22 June 1874) was a Serbian statesman who served as the prime minister of Serbia between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1861 to 1867.
Ilija Garašanin was conservati ...
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Biography of Aleksa Simić
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References
1800 births 1872 deaths Prime Ministers of Serbia Finance ministers of Serbia Government ministers of Serbia Foreign ministers of Serbia Education ministers of Serbia Interior ministers of Serbia Justice ministers of Serbia {{Serbia-politician-stub