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Drago Maru?i?
(10 December 1884 ? 30 September 1964) was a
Slovenian
and
Yugoslav
politician and jurist.
Born in
Opatje Selo
in present-day western Slovenia, Maru?i? studied law at Universities of
Graz
and
Prague
, where he graduated in 1911.
[2]
During World War I he escaped to the Russian side and joined a volunteer legion in Serbia. Then, as a member of the
Yugoslav Committee
he worked in Rome, in the United States, and finally in Paris, where he attended the
1919 Peace Conference
[2]
along with
Ante Trumbi?
. He was a member of the
Independent Agrarian Party
(SKS), and later a member of the
Yugoslav National Party
(JNS).
After the
January 6th Dictatorship
was established by
King Alexander
in 1929, first he was appointed to the Supreme Legislative Council, and in December 1930 Maru?i? was made
Ban
of the
Drava Banovina
province. In December 1934 he became a minister in the government cabinet of
Bogoljub Jevti?
. In the
1935 general election
he was elected to the post of Senator, after which he became a member of the
National Assembly
.
[2]
Following the April 1941
Invasion of Yugoslavia
he became a high-ranking member of the
Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation
(OF), and from 1942 he was interred in Italy. After the
capitulation of Italy
in 1943, he was released and became a member of the regional branches of OF and the
Slovene National Liberation Committee
(SNOS) in the
Slovenian Littoral
region. From 1944 to 1945 he was justice minister in the
Yugoslav government-in-exile
of
Ivan ?uba?i?
, and later served in the unified government of the
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
led by
Josip Broz Tito
until January 1948.
[2]
After the Second World War, he held the post of president of the
Slovenian Red Cross
.
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