Information AboutSophoklis Venizelos |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SOPHOKLIS VENIZELOS | |
| 1894 births | |
| venizelos, sophoklis | |
| 1964 deaths | |
| prime ministers of greece | |
| greek people of world war ii | |
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The second-born son of Eleftherios Venizelos , Sophoklis served with distinction in the Greek Army during the First World War and the initial phases of the Asia Minor Campaign , reaching the rank of Captain of Artillery. He resigned from the Army and was elected as a MP with his father's Liberal Party in the 1920 elections. In 1941 , after Greece was occupied by German troops, he became ambassador to the United States , representing the Greek government-in-exile based in Cairo . He became a minister of that government in 1943 , and its Prime Minister in 1944 . After the end of the war, he returned to Greece where he became Vice President of the Liberal Party (led by Themistoklis Sofoulis ) and a minister in the first post-war government led by Georgios Papandreou . In 1948 , he assumed the leadership of the party and became a minister in a number of short-lived liberal governments led by Papandreou and Nikolaos Plastiras ; he was also the Prime Minister of two such governments. In 1954 , his long time friendship with Georgios Papandreou was shaken, and he formed the rival Liberal Democratic Union party. The rift was bridged in 1958 , and in 1961 he became a founding member of Papandreou's Center Union party, which he served until his death in 1964. His grave lies next to his father's on the island of Crete . |
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