Gajo Bulat (politician, born 1867)

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Gajo Bulat (8 June 1867 – 21 March 1927) was a Croatian lawyer and politician. He was born in Zadar, Dalmatia (then part of Austria-Hungary, today Croatia) and died in Split. He studied law at the University of Zagreb, the University of Vienna and the University of Graz, and then worked in his uncle Gajo Filomen Bulat’s law firm in Split, taking over in 1911 after his uncle’s death.

Bulat belonged to the Croatian Party, formed in 1905. He served as the party’s representative in the Diet of Dalmatia from 1910 to 1918. As Austria-Hungary collapsed, he was elected president of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs for Dalmatia and became a member of the National Council based in Zagreb; both bodies aimed to unite South Slavs politically.

After World War I, with the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918, he was appointed commissioner for transport and public works in Dalmatia’s provincial government. He later joined the Democratic Party and then switched to the Independent Democratic Party.