Andreas Stefanopoulos | |
Native Name: | Ανδρέας Στεφανόπουλος |
Native Name Lang: | el |
Birth Date: | 1860 |
Birth Place: | Pyrgos, Elis, Greece |
Death Date: | 1938 |
Death Place: | Greece |
Nationality: | Greek |
Occupation: | politician |
Relatives: | Christos Stefanopoulos (brother) |
Andreas Stefanopoulos (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ανδρέας Στεφανόπουλος, 1860–1938), was a Greek politician,[1] [2] who served in the Greek parliament and the Greek Senate, amongst other roles.
Andreas Stephanopoulos was born in Pyrgos and was the son of Stephanos Stephanopoulos, a politician and member of the historic Stephanopoulos family. His brother was politician Christos Stefanopoulos. He studied law and political sciences in Athens and Paris and was educated early as a politician.
He was elected as a representative for Elis in the Greek parliament in 1892 with Charilaos Trikoupis' party and was re-elected every time until 1929. Then he became a senator, until the Greek Senate was abolished in 1935. He was Minister for Naval Affairs in the 1903 cabinet of Georgios Theotokis; and the Minister for Education in the 1905 cabinet of Theotokis. He died in 1938.