Jure Bilić

Jure Bilić
7th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament
In office 1978 – May 1982
President	Jakov Blažević
Prime Minister	Petar Fleković
Preceded by	Ivo Perišin
Succeeded by	Jovo Grčić
8th President of the League of Communists of Croatia
In office May 1982 – July 1983
President	Marijan Cvetković Milutin Baltić
Prime Minister	Ante Marković
Preceded by	Milka Planinc
Succeeded by	Josip Vrhovec
Personal details
Born	12 September 1922 Makarska, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died	27 January 2006 (aged 83) Zagreb, Croatia
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)

Jure Bilić (12 September 1922 – 27 January 2006) was a Croatian and Yugoslav communist politician.

Bilić was born in Makarska in 1922. In 1941 he joined the Yugoslav Partisans and became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

After the World War II, Bilić was the State Secretary for Agriculture in Croatia. His ascendancy to high-ranking positions in the Party began in the early 1970s, after the downfall of the Croatian Spring movement. He served as President of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (1978–1982), Chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia (1982–1983) and member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1983–1986).

A party committee vote removed him from office in 1986.^[1]

References

1. Meier, Victor; Ramet, Sabrina P. (1999). Yugoslavia: a history of its demise. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-18595-0.

• Umro bivši visoki politički dužnosnik Jure Bilić (Croatian)