Srđan Budisavljević (8 December 1883 – 20 February 1968) was a politician and lawyer born in Požega. Budisavljević studied 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 Croat-Serb Coalition led by

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and Svetozar Pribičević. Budisavljević was appointed 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 Parliament of Yugoslavia on the Democratic Party 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 Tito–Šubašić Agreements, 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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