Franko Potočnjak dating history

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Franko Potočnjak (Novi Vinodolski, 2 August 1862 – Zagreb, 18 January 1932) was a lawyer and Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. Potočnjak graduated in law from the University of Zagreb and worked as a court clerk until 1887 when he opened a law office in the town of Sveti Ivan Zelina. He joined the Party of Rights and he was editor of its journal Hrvatska domovina n 1896–1897. Potočnjak successfully advocated a coalition of the Independent People's Party and the faction of the Party of Rights led by Fran Folnegović. He was elected to the Croatian Sabor as the Party of Rights candidate in the 1897 Croatian parliamentary election in the district of Bakar. However, he was excluded from Sabor meetings due to his criticism of the Ban of Croatia Károly Khuen-Héderváry. He was elected to the Croatian Sabor again (the Party of Rights was a part of the Croat-Serb Coalition at the time) in the 1906 Croatian parliamentary election and delegated as a representative to the Diet of Hungary in 1906–1907.