Dragić Joksimović

Dragić Joksimović (Bačina, July 18, 1893 Sremska Mitrovica, August 1, 1951) was a Serbian politician and attorney.

Joksimović was born in Bačina, Kingdom of Serbia on July 18, 1893. He became politically active as a student in the Independent Radical Party and later within the Democratic Party. He was later elected into the National Assembly.

In August 1945 he became a member of the Temporary National Assembly of Yugoslavia. He led the Democratic Representatives Club within the assembly. The Democratic Party representatives eventually abandoned the assembly in September of that year.

Joksimović defended Draža Mihailović during the Belgrade Process. He was later imprisoned himself in 1949, dying in the Sremska Mitrovica prison in 1951.

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