Aleksandar Rakodczay

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Aleksandar Rakodczay (25 September 1848 – 10 April 1924) was a Croatian politician and jurist who served as Ban of Croatia-Slavonia from 26 June 1907 to 8 January 1908. He came from a Hungarian family with properties in Hrvatsko Zagorje. He studied law in Hungary and began his career in 1873–74 as an intern at the Croatian ministry in Budapest, later working as a judge in Sombor, Baja, and Kikinda. In 1884 he was an assistant clerk at the Royal Table in Budapest. In 1885, invited by Ban Khuen-Héderváry, he moved to Zagreb as the chief state attorney and in 1886 became Judge of the Table of Seven. From 1893 he was President of the Judgment Table, then Vice President from 1898, and from 1905 president of the Tabula Banalis in Zagreb. After Ban Teodor Pejačević resigned in 1907, Rakodczay became Ban and pursued the government’s New Course policy, but left the office in 1908. He later served again as President of the Table of Seven until 1912. Rakodczay died on 10 April 1924 in Trenkovo, then part of the Sava Banovina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.