Sava Grujić
| General Sava Grujić Сава Грујић |
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| 42nd Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia | |
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In office 1 January 1888 – 27 April 1888 |
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| Monarch | Alexander I |
| Preceded by | Jovan Ristić |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Hristić |
| 45th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia | |
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In office 7 March 1889 – 23 February 1891 |
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| Monarch | Alexander I |
| Preceded by | Kosta Protić |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Pašić |
| 49th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia | |
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In office 5 December 1893 – 24 January 1894 |
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| Monarch | Alexander I |
| Preceded by | Lazar Dokić |
| Succeeded by | Đorđe Simić |
| 61st Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia | |
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In office 4 October 1903 – 10 December 1904 |
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| Monarch | Peter I |
| Preceded by | Jovan Avakumović |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Pašić |
| 64th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia | |
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In office 7 March 1906 – 29 April 1906 |
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| Monarch | Peter I |
| Preceded by | Ljubomir Stojanović |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Pašić |
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| Born | 25 November 1840 |
| Died | 3 November 1913 (aged 72) |
| Political party | People's Radical Party |
| Occupation | Military |
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity |
General Sava Grujić (Serbian Cyrillic: Сава Грујић, transcribed in English as Grujitch; 25 November 1840 – 25 November 1913) was a Serbian Radical Party politician, general, diplomat and a writer.
As a diplomat he was the first to represent Serbia in Bulgaria and Serbia's representative to the Russian Empire, Serbian Deputy in Constantinople and Representative to the Serbian Minister in Athens. As a military officer, he participated in both Serbian-Ottoman Wars (1876–77; 1877–78) and served as Minister of War and Minister of Defence. From comparatively humble origins, he served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia five times between 1889 and 1906 in the Governments of both Karađorđević and Obrenović. He was considered one of the builders of Yugoslavia and played an instrumental role in its creation. He was an able negotiator and diplomat and with some of his contemporaries put together ideas for the formation of a south Slav State working together with prominent liberals of his day.
Sava Grujić was born on 25 November 1840 at Kolari, a village in the district of Smederevo, just ten years after Serbia became a semi-independent state after three and a half centuries of Turkish occupation. His grandfather, Vule Ilić, was a well-known vojvoda (duke or military commander) under Karadjordje who distinguished himself at the battle of Suvobor in 1809 during the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Once he finished his elementary education at the village school, his family could no longer afford to pay for any further education. A local Orthodox priest and a local public official recognized Grujić's potential and arranged for him to go to Belgrade for secondary education.
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