Blažo Jovanović

Blažo Jovanović (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic; Блажо Јовановић; ; 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.

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.

Leadership of partisan units from Montenegro. Standing from left to right: Mirko Burić, Blažo Jovanović, Mitar Bakić, Peko Dapčević, Ivan Milutinović, Savo Orović, Niko Strugar. 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.