Milutin Vucinic
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Milutin Mijajlov Vučinić (12 April 1869, Gornji Rogami, Piperi
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, Montenegro
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 – 14 September 1922, Rome
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, Italy
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) was a Montenegrin soldier and politician.

Biography

Milutin Mijajlov Vučinić was the son of brigadeer Mijajlo Nišina Vučinić and Marica Vučinić (née Marković). He graduated from a military academy in Italy
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. During the First Balkan War
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, he commanded the Spuž
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 brigade.

On 4/17 February 1919, Milutin Vučinić was named the Minister of the Military of the Government of the Kingdom of Montenegro in Exile, a position which he held until his death.

On 15 June 1921, he was also named Minister of Finance
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 of the Government in Exile, a position which he held until September 1922.

On 13 January 1922, he became the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro in Exile
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, a position he held for exactly a month.

Milutin died of a heart attack on 14 September 1922 in Rome
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 at the age of 53. He was survived by his wife Marija Vučinić (née Plamenac), from Crmnica
Crmnica
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, his three sons: Dragutin, Niša and Vladimir "Vlada" and his two daughters: Draginja and Darinka.

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