Lazar Tomanović
4th president of the Ministerial Council of Principality of Montenegro
17 April 1907 – 28 August 1910
1st president of the Ministerial Council of Kingdom of Montenegro
28 August 1910 – 19 July 1912
15 April 1909 – 6 February 1910
17 May 1907 – 15 May 1909
13 April 1910 – 28 August 1910
28 August 1910 – 24 August 1911
17 April 1907 – 28 August 1910
28 August 1910 – 24 August 1911
Lepetane, Herceg Novi, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire
Jošice, Herceg Novi, Zeta Banovina, Yugoslavia
Lazar Tomanović, PhD (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Лазар Томановић; 3 September 1845 – 2 November 1932) was a Montenegrin and Dalmatian Serb writer, politician and diplomat, who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Montenegro, as well the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro, under the regime of King Nikola I.
Biography
Early life and education
Lazar Tomanović was born on 3 September 1845 in Lepetane, a village near Herceg Novi in Bay of Kotor. At the time it was part of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austrian Empire. Having finished elementary and secondary school in Herceg Novi, Tomanović studied in Novi Sad and Budapest and received his doctorate in law in Graz. He was a member of Parliament of Dalmatia (Diet) as representative of Serb People's Party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia.
Prime Minister of Montenegro
He became Prime Minister of Montenegro with support of Royalist True People's Party in April 1907 and held the office for several terms until June 1912. He also served Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Justice of Montenegro. During his second term, Montenegro was proclaimed a sovereign kingdom.[1][2]
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*** in 2007 "the Republic of" officially removed by constitutional act
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