Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris ( el, Δημήτριος Ανδρικόπουλος-Μπουκαούρης, links=no; 1867–1948) was a Greek politician in

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. He was born in Patras. His mother came from a historic political family and so he kept her name 'Boukaouris' in his own surname. He studied law and taught with politicals as a judge. He was first elected as mayor in 1914 in the first elections that happened with the voting system, he remained mayor until 1925, he did not run from August 1 until . He brought electricity to the city and knew the municipal uses while

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eased the factory work and closed the municipal electric and manufacturing factories. In the continuation of electricity, it brought the same industrialists from their rights to electric power that they had in their factory. It brought the exploitation of the Glafkos River in 1922 and finished in 1925 with many obstacles and many political changes. The main proposal happened and was accepted by

Eleftherios Venizelos Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos ( el, Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος, translit=Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, ; – 18 March 1936) was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movem ...

, later by Dimitrios Gounaris and finally by Andreas Michalakopoulos, which concluded new funding and the agreement that made the construction of the product and the sojourn of electric power. In the auctions counciled a Greek and twelve foreign companies. The hiring was made by the raising of the ''Insanity Refuge''. He died in Patras in 1948.

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at the Greek Wikipedia ( el:Main Page) {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrikopoulos Boukaouris, Dimitrios 1867 births 1948 deaths Mayors of Patras Politicians from Patras