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Lina Tsaldari was a Greek politician, the first woman member of a Greek cabinet.
Tsaldari was born in Athens in 1887, the daughter of politician Spyridon Lambros. In 1919, she married conservative politician Panagis Tsaldaris. After her husband's death in 1936, she became involved in charitable works and later entered politics, being elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 1956 and 1958 under the banner of Constantine Karamanlis' National Radical Union.
On February 29, 1956, she was appointed Minister of Social Welfare, the first Greek woman to hold a cabinet post.
Tsaldari died of a stroke on October 17, 1981.