Srđan Budisavljević (8 December 1883 – 20 February 1968) was a politician and lawyer born in Požega. Budisavljević stuied law in Zagreb and Berlin before being elected to the

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of the

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in 1908 as a representative of the

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led by

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and

Svetozar Pribičević Svetozar (Cyrillic script: Светозар) is a Slavic origin given name and may refer to: *Svetozar Boroević (1856–1920), Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal * Svetozar Čiplić (born 1965), Serbian politician *Svetozar Đanić (1917–1941), Ser ...

. Budisavljević was appoined the interior minister of the new the government of Croatia-Slavonia. In 1918, Budisavljević was among founders and the secretary of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs – a body composed of political representatives of the

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living in

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tasked with achieving independence of South Slavic lands from the empire. In the same year he launched the ''Glas Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba'' ("Voice of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs") journal. Budisavljević was elected to the

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on the

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ticket in 1920 and 1923 before switching his allegiance to Pribičević-led Independent Democratic Party (SDS) in 1925. He was a member of the parliament representing the SDS, and the president of the SDS in 1939–1945. In the same period he held several ministerial positions in Yugoslav governments including the

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during the

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. Following the

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, King

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appointed Budisavljević a member of three-person regency council to represent him in the

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. In 1945, Budisavljević returned to Yugoslavia and lived in

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until his death. In 1958, he published ''Stvaranje države Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca'' ("Creation of the State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes"). Budisavljević's father Buda was an ethnic Serb politician from

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. His brother Julije was a noted surgeon, married to Diana, a war-time humanitarian.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Budisavljevic, Srdan 1883 births 1968 deaths People from Požega, Croatia Representatives in the Croatian Parliament (1848–1918)