Dimitrios Rallis

Dimitrios Rallis

Dimitrios Rallis (Greek: Δημήτριος Ράλλης; 1844 – 1921) was a Greek politician.^[1] Rallis was elected to Parliament in 1872 and always represented the same Athenian constituency.^[1] He became Minister in several governments and served as Prime Minister five times.^[2] He last formed a government after the 1920 election and it was his cabinet that authorised the plebiscite that saw King Constantine's return to the throne. He died of cancer in Athens on August 5, 1921 at the age of 77.

Rallis was born in Athens in 1844. He was descended from an old Greek political family. Before Greek independence, his grandfather, Alexander Rallis, was a prominent Phanariote. His father, George Rallis, was Minister in Andreas Miaoulis' government and later Chief Justice of the Greek Supreme Court. Dimitrios Rallis' son, Ioannis Rallis, was a Quisling Prime Minister during the war-time occupation by the German Army and his grandson, George Rallis, served as Prime Minister in the early 1980s.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Smith, Michael Llewellyn (1999-01). Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922. University of Michigan Press. pp. 324–5. ISBN 9780472109906. http://books.google.com/books?id=hgJGJHrlhwIC&pg=PA324. Retrieved 29 May 2010. 
2. ^ Clogg, Richard (1987). Parties and elections in Greece: the search for legitimacy. Duke University Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780822307945. http://books.google.com/books?id=kXm-cEJkvy4C&pg=PA4. Retrieved 29 May 2010. 
3. ^ Clogg, Richard (2002). A concise history of Greece. Cambridge University Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780521004794. http://books.google.com/books?id=H5pyUIY4THYC&pg=PA109. Retrieved 29 May 2010. 

Preceded by Theodoros Deligiannis	Prime Minister of Greece April 30, 1897 - October 3, 1897	Succeeded by Alexandros Zaimis
Preceded by Georgios Theotokis	Prime Minister of Greece July 11, 1903 - December 7, 1903	Succeeded by Georgios Theotokis
Preceded by Theodoros Deligiannis	Prime Minister of Greece June 22, 1905 - December 21, 1905	Succeeded by Georgios Theotokis
Preceded by Georgios Theotokis	Prime Minister of Greece July 19, 1909 - August 28, 1909	Succeeded by Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis
Preceded by Eleftherios Venizelos	Prime Minister of Greece November 18, 1920 - February 6, 1921	Succeeded by Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos

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Name	Rallis, Dimitrios
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Date of birth	1844
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Date of death	1921
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