Petar Stambolic
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Petar Stambolić was a Yugoslav
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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 communist politician
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 who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council (prime minister) of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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 from 1982 until 1983.

Stambolić was born in Brezova, Ivanjica
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, Kingdom of Serbia
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 and died in Belgrade
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, Serbia
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. He graduated from the University of Belgrade
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 Faculty of Agriculture. He had a long career in the Serbian and Yugoslav communist parties. He served as president of the Central Committee of the Serbian Communist Party from 1948 to 1957. During that time he was prime minister of Serbia from 1948 to 1953 and then served as president of the National Assembly of Serbia until 1957 and President of the Federal Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic od Yugoslavia from March 26, 1957 until June 29, 1963. He also served as the president of the federal executive council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967.

His nephew was Serbian president Ivan Stambolić
Ivan Stambolic
Ivan Stambolić was a Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of the Republic of Serbia in the 1980s who was later victim of an assassination....

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