Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Greek politician
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Place of Birth: Patras, West Greece Region, Greece
About Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos
- Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos (Greek: ?????? ?a?a?????-???f??, 23 August 1878 – 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.
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