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Summary: Niko Gršković, an eminent croatian emigrant (biography in outline)
Ivan Čizmić
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Niko Gršković was born in Vrbnik, a small town on the island of Krk, on November 22, 1863. As a young man he took an active part in Croatian politics as a member of Starčević's Party of Right (Stranka prava). In 1910 he emigrated to the United States of America. For some time he lived in Chicago working as a priest in a Croatian church. He became member of a voluntary organization »Croatian People's Party«, and in 1909 he was elected its vice-president and first editor of the newspaper »Zajedničar«. At this time he was very active in social and political life of Croatian emigrants. In 1912 he was elected president of the »Croation Union«. The same year he began editing a newspaper, »The Croatian World«. During the First World War Gršković was the most prominent personality among Croatian emigrants fighting for the creation of a state of all Yugoslav peoples. The manner in which this unification was achieved disappointed him and he retired from political life and devoted all his energies to raise the social and economic position of the Croatian emigrants in the United States of America. He lived to see the formation of new Yugoslavia, for which he had a liking. He died in New York in 1949.
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21.12.2024.
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