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Spyridon Mercouris
Spyridon Mercouris () (1856-1939) was a Greek politician and long-time Mayor of Athens in the early 20th century. He was born in Ermioni, Argolida, in 1856 to a prominent family that had taken part in the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s.
Elected as Mayor of Athens in 1899, he held the post continuously until 1914. As a committed conservative royalist, in 1917, during the National Schism, he was exiled to Corsica by the Venizelists. He was also
daughter was the famous actress Melina Mercouri, Minister of Culture in the socialist government of Andreas Papandreou.
Biography.
Stamatis Mercouris was born in Athens in 1895, son of Spyridon Mercouris and younger brother of George Mercouris. He graduated from the Hellenic Military Academy as a second lieutenant of Cavalry, and fought in World War I in 1917-18 and the Greco-Turkish War in 1919-22.
He then left the Army and entered politics, taking part in the creation of the People's Party, Greece