[2] Dokić finished elementary school and gymnasium in Belgrade and studied medicine in Vienna and Prague, back in Serbia he worked as a county doctor in Užice for fifteen years.

In 1883 he became a personal doctor of the Royal family and tutor of the young heir Crown Prince Alexander Obrenović.

Known as a pro-Obrenović Radical, Dokić served as the President of the State Council (1889 onwards).

[3] On 1 April 1893, the sixteen-year-old prince, while dining with members of the Regency, supported by the army and government members, but without the support of the constitution and the law, declared himself an adult and proclaimed himself the new Serbian king.

[6] With the exception of the Ministry of the Military, the Cabinet of Lazar Dokić was purely Radical.