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Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos
Λουκ?? Κανακ?ρη?-Ρο?φο?
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Born
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1878-08-23
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23 August 1878
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Died
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(1949-11-11)
(aged 71)
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Occupation
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Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos
(
Greek
:
Λουκ?? Κανακ?ρη?-Ρο?φο?
, 23 August 1878
[1]
? 11 November 1949) was a
Greek
politician
.
He was the son of
Athanasios Kanakaris-Roufos
and a member of the
Rouphos
family. In the
1905 elections
he became a member of the
Greek Parliament
but failed to be
re-elected
in 1906. In 1908 however, he succeeded his brother
Ioannis Roufos
in his parliament seat after his death. In 1913, he resigned his seat and became Governor-General of
Crete
, a post he held during the island's official union with Greece in December 1913 and until April 1915. Soon after he was
re-elected
into Parliament, and in September 1916 he became
Minister for the Interior
. Despite his friendship with
Eleftherios Venizelos
, he sided with King
Constantine I
during the
National Schism
. Following Venizelos' victory in 1917, he was imprisoned until 1920. In the
1920 elections
he was again elected to Parliament. In 1922 he served twice briefly as
Minister for National Economy
, in March?April and from May until the outbreak of the
1922 Revolution
in September. In between, he headed the Greek delegation to the talks at
Genoa
aimed at resolving the
ongoing Greco-Turkish War
.
On 20 September 1925, he was appointed
Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs
in the dictatorial government of
Theodoros Pangalos
, and on 6 November he became
Foreign Minister
. He failed to be elected in the
1932 elections
, but succeeded again in the
1936 elections
, the last before the
Metaxas dictatorship
and
World War II
. He died at Athens on 11 November 1949.
He was married to Eleni Papageorgakopoulou and had a son, the diplomat and writer
Rodis Kanakaris-Roufos
.
References
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- The first version of the article was translated from the subject's
article
on Greek Wikipedia .