Blažo Jovanović
{{Short description|Montenegrin politician and revolutionary army commander}}
{{Infobox Prime Minister
|name=Blažo Jovanović
|birth_date= {{Birth date|df=yes|1907|3|28}}
|death_date= {{Death date and age|df=yes|1976|2|4|1907|3|28}}
|birth_place= Podgorica, Montenegro
|death_place= Igalo, SR Montenegro, Yugoslavia
|image=180px
|caption=Jovanović in 1942, during World War II
|party = League of Communists
| office = Prime Minister of Montenegro
| predecessor = Milovan Đilas
| successor = Filip Bajković
| term_start = 17 April 1945
| term_end = 4 February 1953
| office1 = President of the People's Assembly
| predecessor1 = Nikola Kovačević
| successor1 = Filip Bajković
| term_start1 = 15 December 1953
| term_end1 = 12 July 1962
| branch = Yugoslav Partisans
| rank = General Major
| battles = World War II in Yugoslavia
}}
Blažo Jovanović (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic; Блажо Јовановић; {{IPA|sh|blǎːʒɔ jɔʋǎːnɔʋitɕ|pron}}; 28 March 1907 – 4 February 1976) was a Montenegrin politician and revolutionary army commander in the Yugoslav Partisans. He served as the first President of the People's Assembly of Montenegro and was also the speaker of the Parliament of the People's Republic of Montenegro from 1954 to 1963.{{sfn|Народни хероји|1982|p=337}}
Biography
Blažo Jovanović was born in Podgorica, the largest city of Principality of Montenegro, into a middle class family. During World War II, he was one of the most important leaders of the Provincial Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro, the Bay of Kotor and the Sandžak; in the summer of 1941 he was with Milovan Đilas, one of the main leaders of the Montenegrin insurrection against the Italian occupant.
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On 18 July 1941 he practically assumed the function of political commissar with the title of "person for the connection with the people" of the so-called "supreme temporary command" of the insurrectionary forces in Montenegro, while Đilas became the superior commander, and Arso Jovanović, a distant relative of Blažo, became the chief of staff. He was the second president of the People's Assembly of Montenegro, he was also president of the Parliament of the People's Republic of Montenegro from 1954 to 1963.[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Montenegro.html "Montenegro"]. World Statesmen. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
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Category:Politicians from Podgorica
Category:People from the Principality of Montenegro
Category:League of Communists of Montenegro politicians
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour
Category:Members of the Presidency of the 8th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
Category:Members of the Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
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