Konstantinos Kallias

Konstantinos Kallias (July 9, 1901 – April 7, 2004) was a

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politician. He was born in

Chalkis Chalcis ( ; Ancient Greek & Katharevousa: , ) or Chalkida, also spelled Halkida (Modern Greek: , ), is the chief town of the island of Euboea or Evia in Greece, situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from ...

. He co-founded with

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Panagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos ( el, Παναγιώτης Κανελλόπουλος; 13 December 1902, in Patras, Achaea – 11 September 1986, in Athens) was a Greek writer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He w ...

the National Unionist Party. He served in many ministerial positions, including Minister for Justice (1958) and vice-president of

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under

Konstantinos Karamanlis Konstantinos G. Karamanlis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Καραμανλής, ; 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998), commonly anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or just Caramanlis, was a four-time prime minister and twice as the president of ...

(1975–1976). In the first Greek elections to the

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, he was elected as a

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(MEP). In 2003 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest active writer of an autobiography, at the age of 102. He died, aged 102, in Athens on April 7, 2004. 1901 births 2004 deaths People from Chalcis National Unionist Party (Greece) politicians National Reconstruction Front (Greece) politicians Greek Rally politicians National Radical Union politicians Justice ministers of Greece Greek MPs 1950–1951 Greek MPs 1951–1952 Greek MPs 1952–1956 Greek MPs 1956–1958 New Democracy (Greece) MEPs MEPs for Greece 1981–1984 Greek centenarians Men centenarians {{Greece-MEP-stub