Alexandros Zaimis

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name = Alexandros Zaimis

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office = President of the Second Hellenic Republic
term_start = 1929
term_end = 1935
predecessor = Pavlos Kountouriotis
successor = Monarchy restored
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office2 = Prime Minister of Greece
term_start2 = December 4, 1926
term_end2 = July 4, 1928
predecessor2 = Georgios Kondylis
successor2 = Eleftherios Venizelos
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office3 = Prime Minister of Greece
term_start3 = February 5, 1917
term_end3 = June 27, 1917
predecessor3 = Spyridon Lambros
successor3 = Eleftherios Venizelos
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death_date = death date and age|1936|9|15|1855|11|9|df=y
death_place = Vienna, Austria
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Alexandros Zaimis ( _el. Αλέξανδρος Ζαΐμης) (9 November 1855 – 15 September 1936) was a Greek politician. The son of Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, a former Prime Minister of Greece, he entered politics at a young age, becoming a Member of Parliament in 1885, and a Prime Minister for the first time in 1897. In 1906, he was appointed as "Armostis" (High Commissioner) of Crete. In 1917, Zaimis again served as Prime Minister of Greece under King Constantine I, while Eleftherios Venizelos led a rival government controlling northern Greece. Under Entente pressure, he resigned in favor of Venizelos in June of the same year. A moderate conservative, he served again as Prime Minister from 1926 to 1928 in a coalition government of Venizelist and moderate conservatives.

Zaimis was elected President of the Republic in 1929 and remained in this post until the restoration of monarchy in 1935. He died in 1936 in Vienna, Austria

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