Aca Stanojević

Aleksa "Aca" Stanojević (Knjaževac, Principality of Serbia, 1852 - SFR Yugoslavia, 1947) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician, one of the founders and leaders of the People's Radical Party.[1]

Stanojević in 1935.

Stanojević was a member of the People's Radical Party since its founding in 1881. He was long-term Party MP, he also served as Speaker of the National Assembly of the Principality and later Kingdom of Serbia for several terms.

After the death of Nikola Pašić in 1926, he was elected chairman of the main committee and a new leader of the party. Although he was a loyalist to the Karađorđević dynasty, he opposed the establishment of the 6 January dictatorship in 1929 by King Alexander I.[2][3]

At the end of World War II, he joined the KPJ-lead People's Front of Yugoslavia.

References
  1. "Muzej grada Knjaževca, kuća Ace Stanojevića". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  2. Fogelquist, Alan (2011). Politics and Economic Policy in Yugoslavia, 1918-1929. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-257-94299-2.
  3. Stokes, Gale (1990). Politics as Development: The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Serbia. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822310167.
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