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Revision as of 09:57, August 12, 2005
Sophoklis Venizelos (Greek: Σοφοκλής Βενιζέλος, born 1894, died 1964) was a prominent Greek politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Greece.
The second-born son of Eleftherios Venizelos, Sophoklis first became an MP with his father's Liberal Party in 1920. 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.
| Preceded by: Emmanouil Tsouderos |
Prime Minister of Greece April 13, 1944 - April 26, 1944 (in exile in Cairo) |
Succeeded by: Georgios Papandreou |
| Preceded by: Ioannis Theotokis |
Prime Minister of Greece March 23, 1950 - April 15, 1950 |
Succeeded by: Nikolaos Plastiras |
| Preceded by: Nikolaos Plastiras |
Prime Minister of Greece August 21, 1950 - November 1, 1951 |
Succeeded by: Nikolaos Plastiras |