Mihailo Ivanović ( sr-cyrl, Михаило Ивановић; Kuči 1874 –

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1949) was a Montenegrin politician in the early 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the People's Party (known as ''klubaši'') from 1906 to 1918. After unification, he was disappointed and had become an important leader of the

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in the assembly of the

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, and an Axis power collaborator Dr. Dimitrije Vujović "Crnogorski federalisti: 1919–1929.", knj.11, CANU, Titograd 1981.

Biography

During his studied in Belgrade in 1899 he was deported from Serbia with a group of Montenegrins on the grounds that they had prepared a terrorist act. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the

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and returned to Montenegro where he worked in the court in

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. Later he became a member of the High Court in the

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. Ivanović became a believer in Montenegrin unity with Serbia and in 1912 moved to Belgrade. He stayed there until king Nicholas I amnestied him and he returned once more to Montenegro. After the

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he became a member of the

. He was elected to the National Assembly in

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, and

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. With the establishment of an independent Montenegro during World War II under the patronage of Italy, he participated in the St. Peter's Day Parliament which was to announce a new Montenegrin government. After the war, he lost his citizen's rights under the communist regime for having worked with the Italians.

References

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