Ante Trumbić
| Ante Trumbić | |
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| 23rd Mayor of Split | |
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In office 1906–1907 |
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| Preceded by | Vinko Milić |
| Succeeded by | Vicko Mihaljević |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 May 1864 Split, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (now in Croatia) |
| Died | 17 November 1938 (aged 74) Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now in Croatia) |
| Political party |
Croatian Party of Rights (-1905) Croatian Party (1905-1918) Croatian Community (1924-1926) Croatian Federalist Peasant Party (1926-1929) Croatian Peasant Party (1931-1938) |
| Alma mater |
University of Zagreb University of Vienna |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Attorney at law |
Ante Trumbić (17 May 1864 – 17 November 1938) was a Croatian politician in the early 20th century. He was one of the key politicians in the creation of a Yugoslav state.
Trumbić was born in Split in the Austro-Hungarian crownland of Dalmatia and studied law at Zagreb, Vienna and Graz (with doctorate in 1890). He practiced as a lawyer, and then, from 1905 as the city mayor of Split. Trumbić was in favor of moderate reforms in Austro-Hungarian Slavic provinces, which included the unification of Dalmatia with Croatia-Slavonia.
After the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the invasion of Serbia by Austria-Hungary, Trumbić became the prominent Yugoslav nationalist leader during World War I, and led the Yugoslav Committee that lobbied the Allies to support the creation of an independent Yugoslavia. Trumbić negotiated with Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić to have the Kingdom of Serbia support the creation of a Yugoslav state, which was delivered at the Corfu Declaration on 20 July 1917 that advocated the creation of a united state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes that would be led by the Serbian House of Karađorđević.
In 1918 he became foreign minister in the first government of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. At the Versailles conference after World War I, Trumbić had to represent Yugoslav concerns in the face of Italian territorial ambitions in Dalmatia (temporarily settled in 1920, but raised again with Benito Mussolini).
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