Ljubomir Davidović | |
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| Љубомир Давидовић | |
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| 2ndPrime 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 1863 |
| Died | 19 February 1940 (1940-02-20) (aged 76) |
| Nationality | Serbian, Yugoslav |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
Ljubomir Davidović (24 December 1863 – 19 February 1940) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served asprime minister (1919–1920 and 1924) of theKingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later calledYugoslavia).
Davidović was born in a village in theKosmajOblast. He graduated from the department of the Natural Sciences of theVelika škola in Belgrade.[1]
In 1901, he became a member of theSerbian 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 underNikola Pašić.[1]
The next year, he became the leader of another newly founded party, theDemocratic 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 6 January 1929, military-monarchist coup he was one of the leaders of the so-called united opposition. He supported the restoration of parliamentarians in the country.[2]
Until the very end of his life, he advocated for the Yugoslav idea and democratic principles.[3]
Davidović died inBelgrade in 1940.[4]
On 12 December 1914, Davidović as Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, issued an order that all items—books, museum exhibits, manuscripts as well as valuable documents from the archives of institutions of culture and science—which were of particular importance and irreplaceable, be packed and dispatched for safekeeping away from the ravages of war. That order was complied byBožidar Prokić, Director of State Archives of the Kingdom of Serbia;Slobodan Jovanović, Rector of theUniversity of Belgrade;Jovan Tomić, Director of theNational Library of Serbia;Milan Grol, Director of theSerbian National Theatre;Petar Pavlović, Director of the Natural History Museum of Serbia;Sima Trojanović, Director of theEthnographic Museum, Belgrade.
| Government offices | ||
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| Preceded by | Minister of Education of Serbia 1904 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Education of Serbia 1914–1917 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Education of Serbia 1918 | Succeeded by Dimitrije Dimitrijević |
| Party political offices | ||
| Preceded by Post established | President of theDemocratic Party 1919–1940 | Succeeded by |
