[1][2] In Croatian sources, he is usually referred as stariji (Senior) or zubar (the Dentist)[2] to be distinguished from the better known Independent State of Croatia fascist leader and politician Ante Pavelić, who was twenty years younger and member of a different Party of Rights.

[1] The Party of Rights that Pavelić belonged to was known as Milinovci,[2] after their leader Mile Starčević.

On 5 October 1918, he also presided over the initial session of the National Assembly of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.

[2] Pavelić and others started negotiating with the Serbian envoy to the National Assembly Dušan T. Simović as soon as Hungary signed a truce with the Allies on 13 October 1918.

Simović had said that their military victory and the treaty with Hungary gave them right to most of the territory of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, whereas Pavelić said that they want unification with Serbia, but that they needed a federal state as well as a delineation of Croatian and Serbian population that would assume a population transfer.