John Gregovich | |
State Senate: | Nevada |
District: | 19th |
Term Start: | November 1894 |
Term End: | November 1898 |
Birth Date: | 1847 |
Birth Place: | Petrovac, Montenegro |
Death Place: | Tonopah, Nevada, U.S. |
Party: | Silver Party |
John Gregovich (1847May 14, 1912) was a Serbian American merchant and Nevada Senator in the late 19th century. A member of the Silver Party during his tenure as senator, Gregovich later helped take on the cases of various Serbian immigrants living in Tonopah after a mine fire in 1911.
He was stabbed to death on May 14, 1912, by fellow immigrant Andriza Mircovich,[1] who remains the only person executed by firing squad in the state of Nevada.[2]
His house in Tonopah, the John Gregovich House, is a historic home listed on the National Register of Historic Places.