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Jovan Plamenac | |
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| Јован Пламенац | |
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 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 | |
| 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.