Georgios Roufos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Greek politician
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Place of Birth: Patras, West Greece Region, Greece
About Georgios Roufos
- Georgios Roufos (Greek: Ge?????? ???f??, 1841–1891) was a Greek politician 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, a Prime Minister of Greece and Mayor of Patras, he is descended from the Rouphos-Kanakaris families with many generations of politicians and descended from southern Italy. He studied law in Athens and northwest to Paris.
- He married Roxani Mavromichali (?????? ?a???µ?????) and raised a son Ioannis Roufos.
- 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 and ran the gaslight factory 1 km south-southwest of downtown.
- It cost 1,000,000 drachmas 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 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 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.
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