Jure Bilić

Jure Bilić
Chairman of the League of Communists of Croatia
In office
May 1982 – July 1983
Preceded by Milka Planinc
Succeeded by Josip Vrhovec
Personal details
Born 12 September 1922(1922-09-12)
Makarska, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died 27 January 2006(2006-01-27) (aged 83)
Zagreb, Croatia
Political party League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)

Jure Bilić (12 September 1922 – 27 January 2006) was a Croatian and Yugoslav communist politician.

Bilić was born in Makarska in 1922. In 1941 he joined the Yugoslav Partisans and became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

After the World War II, Bilić was the State Secretary for Agriculture in Croatia. His ascendancy to high-ranking positions in the Party began in the early 1970s, after the downfall of the Croatian Spring movement. He served as President of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (1978–1982), Chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia (1982–1983) and member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1983–1986).

A party committee vote removed him from office in 1986.[1]

References

  1. ^ Meier, Victor; Ramet, Sabrina P. (1999). Yugoslavia: a history of its demise. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-18595-0. 
Party political offices
Preceded by
Milka Planinc		 Chairman of the League of Communists of Croatia
1982–1983		 Succeeded by
Josip Vrhovec
Chairpersons of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH)
Đuro Špoljarić (1937–1939) · Rade Končar (1940–1941) · Vlado Popović (1941–1942) · Andrija Hebrang (1942–1944) · Vladimir Bakarić (1944–1969) · Savka Dabčević-Kučar (1969–1971) · Milka Planinc (1971–1982) · Jure Bilić (1982–1983) · Josip Vrhovec (1983–1984) · Mika Špiljak (1984–1986) · Stanko Stojčević (1986–1989) · Ivica Račan (1989–1990)