Leonidas Varouxis ( el, Λεωνίδας Βαρουξής) was a Greek journalist and a politician. The Varouxises had familial ties with the Spilotopoulos family from Dimitsana, which participated in the

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of 1821. Varouxis was born in Pyrgos and was descended from a family of journalists. In 1892, he ran the weekly paper ''Avgi''. He was a brother of Konstantinos Varouxis and was employed as a journalist at the newspaper ''

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'' in the capital city of Athens. He ran the first daily newspaper in Pyrgos '' Patris'' in 1902. He was counseled in the spiritual regeneration of his topic. He was educated as a journalist and a publisher of

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of Akropolis. In 1917, he wrote about the voting of the electorate area of Ilia, an area in which he conjectured that he knew in 1929, along with the sources which drew up from Ilia's newspapers. He called off his publishing on the newspaper in which he made a new circulation by his nephew in 1955. Varouxis died in 1951.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Varouxis, Leonidas 19th-century births 1951 deaths Year of birth missing Greek journalists Greek politicians People from Pyrgos, Elis Politicians from Elis Pyrgos, Elis