death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
athens , greece 11 november 1949 patras , greece 1878 loukas kanakaris-roufos
 loukas kanakaris-roufos Λουκάς Κανακάρης-Ρούφος politician
loukas kanakaris-roufos

loukas kanakaris-roufos -lrb- , 1878-1949 -rrb- was a greek politician .
he was the son of athanasios kanakaris-roufos and a member of the rouphos family .
in the 1905 elections he became a member of the greek parliament , but failed to be re-elected in 1906 .
in 1908 however he succeeded his brother ioannis roufos in his parliament seat after his death .
in 1913 , he resigned his seat and became governor-general of crete , a post he held during the island 's official union with greece in december 1913 and until april 1915 .
soon after he was re-elected into parliament , and in september 1916 he became minister for the interior .
despite his friendship with eleftherios venizelos , he sided with king constantine i during the national schism .
following venizelos ' victory in 1917 , he was imprisoned until 1920 .
in the 1920 elections he was again elected to parliament .
in 1922 he served twice briefly as minister for national economy , in march -- april and from may until the outbreak of the 1922 revolution in september .
in between he headed the greek delegation to the talks at genoa aimed at resolving the ongoing greco-turkish war .
on 20 september 1925 , he was appointed minister for national education and religious affairs in the dictatorial government of theodoros pangalos , and on 6 november he became foreign minister .
he failed to be elected in the 1932 elections , but succeeded again in the 1936 elections , the last before the metaxas dictatorship and world war ii .
he died at athens on 11 november 1949 .
he was married to eleni papageorgakopoulou and had a son , the diplomat and writer rodis kanakaris-roufos .
