Georgios Roufos was a Greek

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 politician

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 and Mayor of Patras for three terms, 1870-1874, 1874-1875 and 1887-1891. He was the 11th mayor of Patras.

He was the son of Benizelos Rouphos

Benizelos Rouphos

Benizelos Rouphos was a Greek politician and Prime Minister. Rouphos was born in Patras in 1795, a scion of the wealthy Rouphos-Kanakaris family. He was the son of Athanasios Kanakaris who fought during the Greek War of Independence. During the government of Ioannis Kapodistrias , Rouphos became...

, a Prime Minister of Greece

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 and Mayor of Patras, he is descended from the Rouphos

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There had been four politicians that had the name Rouphos *Benizelos Rouphos *Giorgios Rouphos*Loukas Ropuhos*Vasileios Rouphos...

-Kanakaris

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The Kanakaris family were an old and rich family that lived in Patras.The descendent of the Patraean branch was Kyriazis Kanakaris, in which together with his brother Angelakis moved to Patras in the beginning of the 16th century. The Kanakaris descended from Livadia in the Viotia, a modern...

 families with many generations of politicians and descended from southern Italy

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He studied law in Athens

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 and northwest to Paris

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. He married Roxani Mavromichali (Ρωξάνη Μαυρομιχάλη) and raised a son Ioannis Roufos

Ioannis Roufos

Ioannis Roufos was a Greek politician.He was the son of Georgios Rouphos, a politician and the 11th Mayor of Patras and a grandson of Benizelos Rouphos, a Prime Minister of Greece and Mayor of Patras, he is descended from the Rouphos-Kanakaris families with many generations of politicians and...

. In 1864, he was attorney at the national assembly. During his mayoral run, he constructed and opened the Apollo Theatre, opened a public hospital, began the construction of wave braker at the Port of Patras, localized the opening of Georgiou I Square

Georgiou I Square

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 and ran the gaslight factory 1 km south-southwest of downtown. It cost 1,000,000 drachma

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s of that time and loan payments. In his second term in 1977, it had a lot of rascals and troublemakers between the Rouphic and the Antirouphics. In that situation, he tore down the castle at the spot where the theater was constructed, bakery and several buildings. He was elected repeatedly in 1883
to the Trikoupi

Charilaos Trikoupis

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 government, he was a naval minister.

In 1891, a large fire destroyed his homes and the archives of the Rouphos family. He gave 800 volumes from the library

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 in Patras before his death and gave the municipality his home in which today is part of the Roufeio (or Roufio) Public School. He was later honoured and named himself a street in Patras. He had a second house in now suburban Roitika

Roitika

Roitika is a village that is located in the municipal unit of Paralia, Achaea, Greece. It is south of the village Paralia. The population is around 2,000 and has a train station and a beach which is 200 m away from the highway. The neighboring communities are Paralia to the north, Mintilogli to...

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