Marko Došen

Marko Došen (7 July 1859 – 7 September 1944^[1]) was a writer, who later became a Croatian Ustaše politician.

Born in Mušaluk^[1] (now part of Gospić), Došen finished elementary school in Lika and one grade of gymnasium in Bjelovar. He entered into trade, but in 1890 moved to Russia where he opened a bookstore in Saint Petersburg. Together with a Russian historian surnamed Filipov, he published the book Hrvati i njihova borba s Austrijom (Croats and their struggle against Austria).^[2] He returned to Gospić in 1893 and the following year started his weekly magazine Hrvat which he edited for ten years.^[2]

He was a member of Starčević's Party of Rights in the Croatian Parliament from 1913 to 1918.^[1] Since 1918 he was a member of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS).^[1][2] He was elected into the national assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920, 1923 and 1925.^[2]

After the Pašić–Radić agreement in 1925 he ended his association with Radić's HRSS. After King Alexander declared a royal dictatorship on 6 January 1929, Došen became a member of the Ustaša, a Croatian revolutionary organization.^[1][2] With Andrija Artuković, Došen was the main organizer of the Velebit Uprising in 1932.^[2] After the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia he returned to the country from Hungary, where he had lived since 1934.^[2] In 1942 he became the president of the Croatian Parliament.^[1] Although the Parliament only met a few times within the first year, he retained his position as its president until his death.^{[citation needed]}

Marko Došen died ^{[clarification needed]} in September 1944 at the age of 85 and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery with full military and state honors.

• Ravlić, Slaven. "Došen, Marko". Tko je tko u NDH (in Croatian). pp. 95–96.