Ivan Šubašić
| Ivan Šubašić | |
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| 22nd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 8 July 1944 – 2 November 1944 |
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| Monarch | Peter II |
| Preceded by | Božidar Purić |
| Succeeded by | Josip Broz Tito |
| Ban of Croatia | |
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In office 24 August 1939 – 13 June 1943 |
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| Deputy | Ivo Krbek |
| Preceded by | post established |
| Succeeded by |
Vladimir Nazor (as Chairman of the ZAVNOH) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 May 1892 Vukova Gorica, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 22 March 1955 (aged 62) Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Political party | Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Ivan Šubašić (7 May 1892 – 22 March 1955) was a Croatian and Yugoslav politician, best known as the last Ban of Croatia.
He was born in Vukova Gorica, then in Austria-Hungary. He finished grammar and high school in Zagreb, and enrolled onto the Faculty of Theology at the University of Zagreb. During the First World War, he was drafted into Austro-Hungarian Army where he took part in the fighting against Serbian forces on River Drina. Later he was sent to the Eastern Front where he used the opportunity to defect to the Russians. From there he joined the Yugoslav volunteers fighting within the Serbian army on the Salonica Front.
After the war, Šubašić gained his law degree at Zagreb University, and after that, he opened a law office in Vrbovsko. There he met Vladko Maček and joined the Croatian Peasant Party. In 1938, he was elected to the Yugoslav National Assembly.
In August 1939, Maček and Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetković reached the deal about the constitutional reconstruction of Yugoslavia and restoration of Croatian statehood in the form of Banovina of Croatia—an autonomous entity which, together with Croatia proper, included large sections of today's Bosnia-Herzegovina and some sections of today's Vojvodina, which contained a Croatian majority. Šubašić was appointed as the first ban, or titular head of this entity, in charge of its government.
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