Jovan Plamenac

Jovan Plamenac
Јован Пламенац
5th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro in Exile
In office 17 February 1919 – 28 June 1921
Monarchs	Nicholas I Danilo Michael
Preceded by	Evgenije Popović
Succeeded by	Milutin Vučinić
3rd president of the Popular Assembly of Kingdom of Montenegro
In office 11 December 1911 – 25 October 1913
Monarch	Nicholas I
Preceded by	Milo Dožić
Succeeded by	Milo Dožić
10th Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs of Principality of Montenegro
In office 17 April 1907 – 15 April 1909
Monarch	Nicholas I
Prime Minister	Lazar Tomanović Mitar Martinović Janko Vukotić
Preceded by	Gavrilo Cerović
Succeeded by	Sekula Drljević
3rd and 5th Minister of Interior of Principality of Montenegro
In office 15 April 1909 – 6 February 1910
Monarch	Nicholas I
Prime Minister	Lazar Tomanović
Preceded by	Lakić Vojvodić
Succeeded by	Lazar Tomanović
In office 13 April 1910 – 28 August 1910
Monarch	Nicholas I
Prime Minister	Lazar Tomanović
Preceded by	Lazar Tomanović
Succeeded by	Himself (as Minister of Interior of Kingdom of Montenegro)
1st and 4th Minister of Interior of Kingdom of Montenegro
In office 28 August 1910 – 13 September 1910
Monarch	Nicholas I
Prime Minister	Lazar Tomanović
Preceded by	Himself (as Minister of Interior of Principality of Montenegro)
Succeeded by	Filip Jergović
In office 19 June 1912 – 8 May 1913
Monarch	Nicholas I
Prime Minister	Mitar Martinović
Preceded by	Marko Đukanović
Succeeded by	Swan Gojnić
4th Minister of Interior of Kingdom of Montenegro in Exile
In office 17 February 1919 – 28 June 1921
Monarchs	Nicholas I Danilo Michael
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Nikola M. Hajduković
Succeeded by	Milutin Vučinić
6th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kingdom of Montenegro in Exile
In office 17 February 1919 – 28 June 1921
Monarch	Nicholas I
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Pero Soc
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Leader of the Greens of Kingdom of Montenegro
In office 1 January 1919 – 14 June 1944 Serving with Krsto Popović and Novica Radović
Leader of True People's Party
In office 1907–1918 Serving with Mitar Martinović and Lazar Mijušković
Personal details
Born	1873 Boljevići, Crmnica, Montenegro
Died	1944 (aged 71)
Political party	True People's Party
Occupation	Politician, teacher

Jovan Simonov Plamenac (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Симонов Пламенац; 1873–1944) was a Montenegrin and Yugoslav politician.

Starting out as a prominent leader of the True People's Party in the Principality of Montenegro, state that would soon transform into a kingdom, Plamenac was a staunch supporter of the country's monarch Prince Nikola Petrović-Njegoš who changed his role to king in 1910. As World War I broke out and King Nikola secretly fled the country after it got invaded by the Central powers, Plamenac denounced the king.

Following the war, Plamenac became one of the leaders of the Greens and one of the chief protagonists of the 1919 Christmas Rebellion in opposition to the post-war Montenegrin unification with Serbia and subsequent creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Upon fleeing to Italy in wake of the failed rebellion, Plamenac became head of the Montenegrin authorities in exile. At the post he presided over units of exiled Greens who trained in the town of Gaeta with Italian support before being covertly shipped back home across the Adriatic where a low-level guerrilla insurgency continued even after the failed rebellion. Plamenac also tried to gain political support abroad for his organization's opposition to the newly created South Slavic state, but achieved very little in that regard.

By the mid-1920s, Plamenac did a complete turnaround, deciding to cut a deal with the Kingdom of SCS authorities, which allowed him to return home where he became a centrist politician with the People's Radical Party of Nikola Pašić.