Milan Piroćanac
| Milan Piroćanac Милан Пироћанац |
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| Prime Minister of Serbia | |
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In office 2 November 1880 – 3 October 1883 |
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| Monarch | Milan I |
| Preceded by | Jovan Ristić |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Hristić |
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7 January 1837 Jagodina, Serbia |
| Died | March 1, 1897 (aged 60) Belgrade, Serbia |
| Political party | Progressive Party |
| Occupation | judge, lawyer, politician and diplomat |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodox |
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Milan Piroćanac (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Пироћанац), (January 7, 1837 – March 1, 1897) was a prominent Serbian statesman and politician, leader and founder of the Progressive party (Napredna stranka), and a Prime Minister of the Principality, later Kingdom of Serbia in the 19th century.
Piroćanac was born into a family originally from the Pirot area in southeastern Serbia. After finishing his law studies at Paris Law University in 1860, Piroćanac was recruited by Ilija Garašanin into the Foreign Ministry of Serbia. After Serbia and Montenegro concluded an alliance in 1866, brokered by Prince Mihailo Obrenović and Prince Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš so that the two Serbian principalities could jointly fight the Ottomans, Piroćanac spent several months in Cetinje, as a political representative of Serbia, serving, in addition, as a secretary to Prince Nikola of Montenegro. He began a career as a judge in 1868 and was posted to the Court of Cassation of the Kingdom in 1872.
Piroćanac was elected Minister of Foreign Affairs in the conservative-liberal alliance cabinet led by Jovan Marinović (November 25, 1874 to January 22, 1875). After the end of his short ministerial term he returned to the Court of Cassation.
Being a prominent member of the younger Western-educated Serbian conservatives, Piroćanac was the founder of the Progressive party in 1880, gathered around the journal Videlo (Daylight), which propagated loyalty to the Crown and “law, freedom and progress”.
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