Tomaž Marušič, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Tomaž Marušič

Slovenian politician

Date of Birth: 19-May-1932

Date of Death: 16-Feb-2011

Profession: lawyer, politician, historian

Nationality: Italy, Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Tomaž Marušic (19 May 1932 – 16 February 2011) was a Slovenian lawyer and politician.He was born in Gorizia, Italy.
His father, Franc Marušic was a renowned local physician and a staunch Slovene patriot and antifascist.
During his childhood, the family moved to the suburb of Solkan, which was included in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1947. Marušic studied at the Nova Gorica Grammar School.
He graduated from law at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a lawyer in Nova Gorica and Koper.
During the Slovenian Spring (1988–1990), he joined the newly formed Slovene People's Party.
In 1993, he was elected by the City Council of Nova Gorica as the first non-Communist mayor of the town, but lost the elections the following year against Crtomir Špacapan of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia.
From February 1997 until June 2000, Marušic served as Minister for Justice in the coalition government led by Janez Drnovšek. He is the brother of the renowned historian Branko Marušic and of the Landscape Architect Ivan Janez Marušic.