Ljubomir Davidović

Ljubomir Davidović
2nd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
In office 28 July 1924 – 6 November 1924
Monarch	Peter I
Preceded by	Nikola Pašić
Succeeded by	Nikola Pašić
In office 16 August 1919 – 19 February 1920
Monarch	Peter I
Preceded by	Stojan Protić
Succeeded by	Stojan Protić
Personal details
Born	24 December (old style: 12 December) 1863 Vlaško Polje, Principality of Serbia
Died	19 February 1940 (1940-02-20) (aged 76) Belgrade, Serbia
Political party	Democratic Party

Ljubomir Davidović (Vlaško Polje, 24 December 1863 (old style: 12 December) – Belgrade, 19 February 1940) was a prime minister (1919-1920 and 1924) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

Biography

Davidović was born in a village in the Kosmaj Oblast. He graduated from the science and mathematics department of the College of Arts and Sciences of the Grande école (Velika škola) in Belgrade.

In 1901, he became a member of the Serbian Parliament, and played a part in founding the Independent Radical Party, whose leader he eventually became in 1912. He was Minister of Education in 1904; President of the Municipality of Belgrade; and President of the National Assembly in 1909. Between 1914 and 1917, he was minister of education in the cabinet under Nikola Pašić, and in 1918 in the first Yugoslav government.

The next year, he became leader of another newly founded party, the Democratic Party. As such, he was prime minister in the coalition of Democrats and Socialists between 1919 and 1920. He briefly was prime minister again in July 1924 in a Coalition of Democrats, Slovene Clericals, and Bosnian Muslims, with support from the Croatian Peasant Party. After the 6 January 1929, military-monarchist coup he was one of the leaders of the so-called united opposition. He supported the restoration of parliamentarism in the country.

Death

Davidović died in Belgrade in 1940.

Works

• Spomenica: Ljubomira Davidovića, Belgrade, 1940.

References

• Adapted from Serbian Wikipedia:
• sr:Љубомир Давидовић

External links

• Biography at Britannica
• Short biography