Filip Lakuš

Filip Lakuš
Born	(1888-03-24)24 March 1888 Vižovlje near Veliko Trgovišće, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia)
Died	3 August 1958(1958-08-03) (aged 70) Sesvete, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Occupation	Politician
Political party	Croatian Peasant Party (until 1945) Croatian Republican Peasant Party (from 1945)

Filip Lakuš (24 March 1888 – 3 August 1958) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. Lakuš was among the leaders of the 1920 Croatian Peasant Rebellion in and around Križ. He was a member of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the group that split from the party known as the Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS). In 1943, Lakuš joined a faction of the HSS cooperating with the Yugoslav Partisans against the Axis powers following the World War II invasion of Yugoslavia. He was a delegated to the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia (ZAVNOH) as well as the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). He was appointed to the presidencies of both ZAVNOH and AVNOJ. In 1945, he was appointed a member and a vice-president of the presidium of the Parliament of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia and subsequently of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and a member of the Yugoslav Agrarian Council until retirement in 1952.^[1]

References

1. Leček, Suzana (2013). "Lakuš, Filip". Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 16 March 2023.