Aćim Čumić

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Aćim Čumić
Аћим Чумић
Court of Cassation
In office
22 January 1875 – 1878
Personal details
Born1836 (1836)
Serbian Progressive Party

Aćim Čumić (Serbian Cyrillic: Аћим Чумић; 1836 – 27 July 1901) was a Serbian jurist and politician who served as Prime Minister of the Principality of Serbia.

Biography

Aćim Čumić studied and completed his law degree at the universities in

Grandes écoles (Velika škola) in 1865.[1]
He participated in the work of the Constitutional Committee of 1868 and was noted for his eloquence and for suggesting that the government was to be placed under the control of the State Council, and not the Assembly.

He was a politician of conservative orientation, sharing similar beliefs with older politicians such as Ilija Garašanin and Jovan Marinović. He was the leader of a group of young conservatives.[2]

In 1871, he became president of the

Minister of the Interior in Prime Minister Marinović
's cabinet.

On 25 November 1874, Čumić replaced Marinović, who resigned, and became

Court of Cassation.[citation needed
]

He was arrested by the Liberal government in 1878 for alleged involvement in the Topola Mutiny[4] and was sentenced to death together with Jevrem Marković and Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac.[5] He was later pardoned and received a commuted sentence of 10 years in prison instead. Marković was the only one executed. Čumić and Kolarac were released from prison after the fall of the Ristić government in 1880. Later, Čumić ceased his engaging in politics.[6]

During the 1880s he was a government representative ('commissioner') of the Serbian Railways Construction and Exploitation organization. He was very involved in raising the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment.

He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society and an honorary member of the

Serbian Royal Academy since 1892.[7] He served as a senator during the Kingdom of Serbia in 1901.[8]

Works

  • Cassation Power [Касацијона власт] (1867)
  • Endowments in Defense of Serbs [Задужбине у одбрани Српства] (1890)

See also

References

  1. ^ Popov, Čedomir (1980). Srbija na putu oslobodenja: borba za politički preobražaj i državnu nezavisnost 1868-1878 (in Serbian). Naučna Knjiga.
  2. ^ McClellan, Woodford (1964). Svetozar Marković and the Origins of Balkan Socialism. Princeton University Press.
  3. ISBN 9780880335836
    .
  4. ^
    ISBN 9780822310167
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  5. ISBN 9780880331302
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  6. ISBN 9780880330909
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  7. ^ "Cumic Acim".
  8. ^ "Čitač knjiga". www.digitalna.nb.rs. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
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