Stefanos Stefanopoulos (; 3 July 1898 – 4 October 1982) was a

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politician, and served as

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from 1965 to 1966.

Biography

Stefanopoulos was born in

Pyrgos, Elis Pyrgos () is a city in the northwestern Peloponnese, Greece, capital of the regional unit of Elis (regional unit), Elis and the seat of the Municipality of Pyrgos. The city is located in the middle of a plain, from the Ionian Sea. The river Alfei ...

. He was a moderate conservative and served as foreign minister during

Alexandros Papagos Alexandros Papagos (; 9 December 1883 – 4 October 1955) was a Greek military officer who led the Hellenic Army in World War II and the later stages of the subsequent Greek Civil War. The only Greek army career officer to rise to the rank of Fie ...

' government. He even served as acting Prime Minister for a day after the latter's death on 4 October 1955. On 17 September 1965, he became

during the period of Iouliana, supported by conservatives and defecting members of the

Centre Union The Centre Union () was a major centrist political party in Greece, created in 1961 by Georgios Papandreou.Clogg, 1987, pp. 39–40 History The Centre Union was a political party in Greece in the 1960s which held office from 1963 to 1965 and wa ...

party. Unable to gain a parliamentary

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, his government fell on 22 December 1966. He stayed away from politics while the

Greek military junta The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels with CIA backing overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections wh ...

ruled 1967 until 1974. He tried to make a comeback into politics by forming a right-wing party, but failed to be elected in 1977. He died from heart and respiratory issues, aged 84, in

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