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Dimitrios Andrikopoulos Boukaouris

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Nationality
  
Greek

Role
  
Greek Politician

Died
  
1948, Patras, Greece


Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris

Born
  
1867
Patras, Greece

Occupation
  
politician, mayor of Patras

Name
  
Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris

Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris (Greek: Δημήτριος Ανδρικόπουλος-Μπουκαούρης; 1867–1948) was a Greek politician of Achaea and a mayor of Patras.

He was born in Patras and is a descendant of the famous political family. The Boukaouris was the name of his mother which other because it was the historic family with a large portion of independence and in political life. He studied law and taught with politicals as a judge.

He was first elected as mayor in 1914 in the first elections which happened with the voting system, he remained mayor until 1925, he did not ran from August 1, until . He brought electricity to the city and knew the municipal uses while World War I eased the factory works and closed the municipal electric and manufacturing factories. In the continuation of electricity, it brought the same industrialists from their rights on electric power which had in their factory. It brought the exploitation of the Glafkos river in 1922 and finished in 1925 with many obstacles in many political changes. The main proposal happened and was accepted by Eleftherios Venizelos, later by Dimitrios Gounaris and finally Andreas Michalakopoulos, which concluded new fundings and the agreement which made the construction of the product and sojourn of electric power. In the auctions counciled a Greek and twelve foreign companies. The hiring which made by the raising of the Insanity Refuge.

He died in Patras in 1948.

References

Dimitrios Andrikopoulos-Boukaouris Wikipedia