The end of Matko Laginja\u27s Life and Posthumous Honours Conferred in 1930

Hrvatski političar Matko Laginja (1852.–1930.) stekao je velike preporodne i nacionalno integracijske zasluge u Istri. Bio je politički aktivan i na široj političkoj sceni: u austrijskom dijelu Habsburške Monarhije, u Hrvatskoj i u Kraljevini SHS. Umro je u Zagrebu, gdje je i pokopan uz najviše počasti.Matko Laginja (Klana, 10 August 1852 - Zagreb, 18 March 1930), a man of broad legal and economic education and a lawyer by profession, was known as a great politician and a distinguished patriot. He was a representative in the Istrian Parliament in Poreč (1883 -1916), in the Imperial Assembly in Vienna (1891-1901, 1907 -1918) and in the representative bodies of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Belgrade (The Interim Legislature 1919 -1920, The Constituent Assembly 1920 – 1921 and The National Assembly 1921 – 1923). He also served as the Ban of Croatia in Zagreb (1920). With his literary and journalistic work, Matko Laginja influenced those areas of life as well. He was buried in the arcades of Zagreb’s Mirogoj Cemetery, highly honoured by the representatives of his native Istria, (unjustly segregated from its parent state of Croatia), Istrian emigrants, the governing bodies of Zagreb, the national government, many Croatian associations and institutions and numerous citizens of the Sava and Littoral Banovina