Background
They found refuge in Skopje where Vasilije was born.
They found refuge in Skopje where Vasilije was born.
After his primary education the family moved to Belgrade where young Jovanović finished high school and Law Faculty. He rounded up his education with a Doctor of Philosophy in Bruxelles.
Faced with ethnic Albanian violence, Jovanović"s family had to escape the village of Kožlje. In September 1903 the group formed a Serb revolutionary and guerrilla committee for Macedonia – Glavni odbor četničke akcije. Jovanović became its secretary and one of its leaders until 1905.
After the Young Turk revolution in 1908 when affairs in Macedonia seemed to be going towards a political solution, Jovanović took part in the First Conference of Serbs of Old Serbia and Macedonia (12-15 August 1908) in Skopje.
WW1 and Later Political In World War One he was mobilized and later on was sent to France by Serbian government. In Kingdom of Yugoslavia he took active role in politics and acted as a Minister of Transport in several governments.
He was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the newly founded Serb Democratic League (political party of Serbs living in the Ottoman Empire).
As a lawyer in Belgrade he was a member of a masonic lodge Pobratimstvo where he was acquainted with Luka Ćelović and Milorad Godjevac who already kept touch with Serbs in Macedonia, especially those acting within VMRO. Jovanović also took part as a member of the Assembly of Serbs in Ottoman Empire in Skopje, which first met in February 1909 and was active until the end of that year when it was banned by the Young Turks. After the War he was in Geneva as a Yugoslav member of the League of Nations.