Stefanos Dragoumis

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Stefanos Dragoumis
Στέφανος Δραγούμης
o.s.
MonarchGeorge I
Preceded byDimitrios Rallis
Succeeded byEleftherios Venizelos
Minister of Finance
In office
24 September 1915 – 27 March 1916
MonarchConstantine I of Greece
Preceded byEmmanouil Repoulis
Succeeded byDimitrios Rallis
Personal details
Born1842
Athens, Greece
DiedSeptember 17, 1923
ChildrenIon Dragoumis
Natalia Dragoumis, spouse of Pavlos Melas
Alma materUniversity of Paris

Stefanos Dragoumis (Greek: Στέφανος Δραγούμης; 1842 – 17 September 1923[1]) was a judge, writer and the Prime Minister of Greece from January to October 1910. He was the father of Ion Dragoumis.

Early years

Dragoumis was born in Athens. His grandfather, Markos Dragoumis (1770–1854), who was born in a prominent Greek family[2] from Vogatsiko in the present Kastoria regional unit, had been a member of the 1814–1821 revolutionary Filiki Eteria, while his father Nikolaos Dragoumis was a secretary of Ioannis Kapodistrias. Born in Athens in 1842, Dragoumis studied law at the University of Paris and became a judge.

Political career

He became Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice and was very active politically. He was later elected a member of Parliament and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior. He was also active in the Macedonian Struggle. The organization Macedonian Committee was formed in 1904 by Stephanos Dragoumis in Athens.

1909 reform government

Following the

Greek Constitution. The Dragoumis government responded positively to the demands of its dual mission: to secure a smooth path towards the process of reform and to complete its legislative programme.[3] By September, Venizelos had arrived in Athens and by drawing large crowds to rallies had established his political strength. King George
invited Venizelos to form a government and Dragoumis resigned.

Later career

A bust in Athens

During the

Stephanos Skouloudis cabinets. Dragoumis was dismissed from his seat in 1917, when Venizelos re-instated the May 1915 Parliament ("Lazarus Parliament"), but was re-elected as an MP in the November 1920 elections. He died in Athens
.

References

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  2. ISBN 978-1-000-33200-1
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  3. ^ VenizelosNational Research Foundation Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Greece
1910 		Succeeded by
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