Background
Vukotić was born in Čevo, belonging to the Vukotić brotherhood. He was related to Petar and Milena Vukotić.
Vukotić was born in Čevo, belonging to the Vukotić brotherhood. He was related to Petar and Milena Vukotić.
He studied the lower gymnasium at Cetinje, and at the Military Academy in Modena in Italy.
Vukotić served as Montenegro"s Defence Minister in the periods of 1905-1907, 1911–1912 and 1913–1915, and as the Prime Minister of Montenegro in 1913-1915. He commanded the Montenegrin Eastern Army during the First Balkan War and the Montenegrin division of the First Serbian Army during the Second Balkan War, in which he distinguished himself at the Battle of Bregalnica. He was taken prisoner after the surrender of Montenegro in January 1916, and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in Hungary.
After the war, he served as a general in the Yugoslav army until his death in 1927.
He was buried in Belgrade"s New Cemetery.