Drago Marušič

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Drago Marušič

23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
In office 30 January 1945 – 7 March 1945
Monarch	Peter II
Preceded by	Ivan Šubašić
Succeeded by	Josip Broz Tito
Minister of Health and Social Affairs
In office 22 December 1934 – 24 June 1935
Prime Minister	Bogoljub Jevtić
Preceded by	Ivan Puceli
Minister of Justice
In office 8 July 1944 – 7 March 1945
Prime Minister	Ivan Šubašić (1944–45) Himself (1945)
Preceded by	Vladeta Milićević
Succeeded by	Frane Frol
Minister of Post and Telegraph
In office 7 March 1945 – 1 January 1948
Prime Minister	Josip Broz Tito
Preceded by	Post created
Succeeded by	Zajm Sarac
Personal details
Born	1884 Opatje selo, Austria-Hungary
Died	1964 Gorizia, Italy

Drago Marušič (1884–1964) was a Slovenian and Yugoslav politician and jurist.

Born in Opatje Selo in present-day western Slovenia, Marušič studied law at Universities of Graz and Prague, where he graduated in 1911. During World War I he escaped to the Russian side and joined a volunteer legion in Serbia. Then, as a member of the Yugoslav Committee he worked in Rome, in the United States, and finally in Paris, where he attended the 1919 Peace Conference along with Ante Trumbić. He was a member of the Independent Agrarian Party (SKS), and later a member of the Yugoslav National Party (JNS).

After the January 6th Dictatorship was established by King Alexander in 1929, first he was appointed to the Supreme Legislative Council, and in December 1930 Marušič was made Ban of the Drava Banovina province. In December 1934 he became a minister in the government cabinet of Bogoljub Jevtić. In the 1935 general election he was elected to the post of Senator, after which he became a member of the National Assembly.

Following the April 1941 Invasion of Yugoslavia he became a high-ranking member of the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation (OF), and from 1942 he was interred in Italy. After the capitulation of Italy in 1943, he was released and became a member of the regional branches of OF and the Slovene National Liberation Committee (SNOS) in the Slovenian Littoral region. From 1944 to 1945 he was justice minister in the Yugoslav government-in-exile of Ivan Šubašić, and later served in the unified government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia led by Josip Broz Tito until January 1948.

After the Second World War, he held the post of president of the Slovenian Red Cross.

v t e Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1943)	Nikola Pašić Stojan Protić Ljubomir Davidović Stojan Protić Milenko Vesnić Nikola Pašić Ljubomir Davidović Nikola Pašić Nikola Uzunović Velimir Vukićević Anton Korošec Petar Živković Vojislav Marinković Milan Srškić Nikola Uzunović Bogoljub Jevtić Milan Stojadinović Dragiša Cvetković Dušan Simović* Slobodan Jovanović* Miloš Trifunović* Božidar Purić* Ivan Šubašić* Drago Marušič*

Federal Yugoslavia (1943-1992)	Josip Broz Tito Petar Stambolić Mika Špiljak Mitja Ribičič Džemal Bijedić Veselin Đuranović Milka Planinc Branko Mikulić Ante Marković Aleksandar Mitrović (acting)

* in exile

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Name	Marušič, Drago
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Date of birth	1884
Place of birth	Opatje selo, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	1964
Place of death	Gorizia, Italy

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