Ilija Šumenković

Šumenković was born in the village of Boroec, close to Struga in present-day Republic of Macedonia but at the time part of the Ottoman Empire.

[3] During the regulation of the Yugoslav-Albanian border, Šumenković, already a prominent politician sent in 1919 a note to the commission dealing with that question in which he noted that if the border should remain as they had ordered it to be, then his native village of Boroec — as well as the village of Vevčani from which the forefathers of Mihailo Pupin came — would be in Albania.

The note allegedly made the commission move the borderline to include this region into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

[5] After some time as an MP for Democratic Party, in 1924 Šumenković became the Cabinet Minister of Trade and Industry.

[8] Next year his book Naša emigracija i spoljna politika ("Our Emigration and Foreign Policy") was published in Canada.