Ivan Pernar (3 November 1889 – 2 April 1967) was a Croatian

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of the

Croatian Peasant Party The Croatian Peasant Party (, HSS) is an agrarianism, agrarian List of political parties in Croatia, political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun Radić, Antun and Stjepan Radić as Croatian Peoples' Peasant Party (HPSS). The ...

. He was a member of the National Assembly of the

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. On 20 June 1928, Pernar was one of several Croatian Peasant Party representatives shot at by People's Radical Party representative

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. While Pernar recovered from the gunshot, party leader Stjepan Radić died from the wounds suffered in the attack. During the subsequent

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, Pernar was jailed in

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for 3 years. Pernar was later selected as a senator for the

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. In 1945, he emigrated to the

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where he remained until his death in 1967. The Croatian politician, Ivan Pernar (born 1985), is his grandnephew.

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Zlatko Begonja: Ivan Pernar on Croatian–Serbian Relations After the 1928 Assassination in Belgrade
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pernar, Ivan 1889 births 1967 deaths People from Marija Gorica People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Croatian Peasant Party politicians Representatives in the Yugoslav National Assembly (1921–1941) Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Prisoners and detainees of Yugoslavia Shooting survivors Burials at Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx)