Adamantios Androutsopoulos
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Adamantios Androutsopoulos (1919 – 10 November 2000) was a lawyer, professor, and the Prime Minister of Greece
Prime Minister of Greece
The Prime Minister of Greece , officially the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic , is the head of government of the Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Greek cabinet. The current interim Prime Minister is Lucas Papademos, a former Vice President of the European Central Bank, following...

 from 1973 to 1974 appointed by junta strongman Dimitrios Ioannides
Dimitrios Ioannides
Dimitrios Ioannidis , also known as Dimitris Ioannidis, was a Greek military officer and one of the leading figures in the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.He was born in Athens to a wealthy, upper middle-class business family with roots in Epirus....

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He was born in Psari
Psari
-Places in Greece:*Psari, Arcadia, a village in Arcadia*Psari, Elis, a settlement in Elis*Psari, Corinthia, a settlement near Stymfalia, Corinthia*Psari, Messenia, a settlement in Messenia*Psari , a mountaintop in Lacedaemonia in the Laconia prefecture...

, Messenia
Messenia
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, Greece in 1919. He studied at the University of Athens and The John Marshall Law School. He was a lecturer at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
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. He was Finance Minister
Minister for Economy and Finance (Greece)
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 (21 April 1967 – 26 August 1971) and Minister for the Interior
Minister for the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation (Greece)
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 (26 August 1971 – 10 May 1973) during the Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos
Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos was the head of the military coup d'état that took place in Greece on 21 April 1967 and leader of the military government that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974. Papadopoulos was a Colonel of Artillery...

 military régime
Military dictatorship
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. When Papadopoulos was overthrown in 1973 by Ioannides, Androutsopoulos was appointed Head of Government
Head of government
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 (25 November 1973 – 23 July 1974), and also Finance Minister (25 November 1973 – 26 July 1974), until the return of democratic government in 1974 during the metapolitefsi
Metapolitefsi
The Metapolitefsi was a period in Greek history after the fall of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 that includes the transitional period from the fall of the dictatorship to the Greek legislative elections of 1974 and the democratic period immediately after these elections.The long...

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