Ljubomir Davidović

Ljubomir Davidović
Personal details
Born	24 December (old style: 12 December) 1863 Vlaško Polje, Serbia
Died	19 February 1940 Belgrade

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

Davidović was born in Vlaško Polje.

In 1901, he became a member of the Serbian Parliament, and played a part in founding the Independent Radical Party, whose leader he became in 1912. 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.

Davidović died in Belgrade.

External links

• Biography at Britannica
• Short biography

Party political offices
First	Leader of the Democratic Party of Yugoslavia 1919 – 1940	Succeeded by Milan Grol

Persondata
Name	Davidović, Ljubomir
Alternative names
Short description	prime minister (1919-1920 and 1924) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (now Yugoslavia)
Date of birth	24 December (old style: 12 December) 1863
Place of birth	Vlaško Polje
Date of death	19 February 1940
Place of death	Belgrade