Ante Pavelić (; 19 May 1869 – 11 February 1938) was a Croatian and Yugoslav

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and

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. In Croatian sources, he is usually referred as (Senior) or (the Dentist) to be distinguished from the better known

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fascist leader and politician

Ante Pavelić Ante Pavelić (; 14 July 1889 – 28 December 1959) was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fasc ...

, who was twenty years younger and member of a different Party of Rights. Starting in 1906 he was a member of the

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from the

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. The Party of Rights that Pavelić belonged to was known as , after their leader Mile Starčević. On 2–3 March 1918, Pavelić chaired a conference that produced the

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. On 5 October 1918, he also presided over the initial session of the National Assembly of the

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. On 19 October, he became the vice president of the National Assembly. Pavelić authored the Croatian Parliament's declaration of 29 October 1918, that formally acknowledged the National Assembly as the superior authority over Croatia. Pavelić and others started negotiating with the Serbian envoy to the National Assembly Dušan T. Simović as soon as

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signed a truce with the

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on 13 October 1918. Simović had said that their military victory and the treaty with Hungary gave them right to most of the territory of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, whereas Pavelić said that they want unification with

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, but that they needed a federal state as well as a delineation of Croatian and Serbian population that would assume a

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. Simović rejected the talk of federalization and Pavelić yielded, and there was no further discussion on either issue. As a delegate of the Assembly, he read the statement on uniting the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs with the Kingdom of Serbia into the

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on 1 December 1918. Later, Pavelić joined the Democratic Party, and in 1932 he became the Speaker of the Senate of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pavelic, Ante 1869 births 1938 deaths People from Gospić People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Party of Rights politicians Democratic Party (Yugoslavia) politicians Representatives in the Croatian Parliament (1848–1918) Representatives in the Yugoslav National Assembly (1921–1941) Croatian dentists Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery People from Austria-Hungary