| Gen. Phaedon Gkizikis |
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| 1917 births | |
| 1999 deaths | |
| greek military junta of 1967-1974 | |
| hellenic army officers | |
| leaders who took power by coup | |
| presidents of greece | |
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Born in 1917 , Phaedon Gizikis was a career Greek army officer. In 1967 he supported the Georgios Papadopoulos ' Coup D'etat and received a number of senior military posts during The Dictatorship That Followed . He was given the figurehead title of President of the Republic in November 1973 , after Papadoupoulos was ousted by Dimitrios Ioannides as head of the regime in an internal power struggle. After the fall of the dictatorship in 1974 , he retained his post for four months until a new constitution could be enacted; he was then replaced by Michail Stasinopoulos . After his fall from power he went into seclusion; he died impoverished and blind in 1999 . |