Vojislav Marinković ( sr-cyr, Војислав Маринковић; 13 May 1876 Ministry, p. 1 – 18 September 1935) Yugoslav Archive (2008), p. 1 was a Serbian and Yugoslav diplomat and politician, serving two times as Minister of Foreign Affairs and briefly as Prime Minister during the dictatorship of King

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Beginnings

Marinković was born in Belgrade, then capital of the

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, in 1876. His parents were Dimitrije Marinković, lawyer and politician, and Velika (nee Klajn). He attended secondary school in the city, graduated at the

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Faculty of Law and later received doctorate in political science and economics in

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. From 1901, he worked in the Ministry of Finance and was director of the Business Bank. He was deputy of the Serbian Parliament from 1906. From 1914 to 1917, he served as Minister of Economy. Again minister at the end of 1918, he participated in the

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Parliamentary period in Yugoslavia

He served as Minister of the Interior briefly at the end of 1921 and beginning of 1922. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the governments of

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(for a few months of 1924),

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and

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, last in the parliamentary term.

Royal dictatorship

With the proclamation of the

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in 1929, Marinković entered the cabinet chaired by the former commander of the

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, General

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. He replaced Živković as Prime Minister in April 1932, with the aim of changing the image of the dictatorship thanks to his experience as a veteran deputy and distinguished member of the

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. During his short tenure as the head of the government, he softened political repression, allowing contacts between the old parties. His program, which was left unimplemented by his early dismissal, included the liberalization of the electoral law passed in 1931 and the revision of the 1931 Constitution, approved during the dictatorship. He publicly mentioned the possibility of calling a referendum on the federalization of the country, which upset both some of his ministers and the King, who relieved him in July 1932. He was succeeded as Prime Minister by his former Minister of the Interior,

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, opposed to the rapid liberalization advocated by Marinković.

Personal life

He was married to Ana (1881–1973), painter and daughter of chemist Sima Lozanić. They had no children.Snežana Bojović: Sima Lozanić 1847–1935, Princip, Beograd 1996,

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