Alexandros Papanastasiou
| Alexandros Papanastasiou | |
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| 42nd Prime Minister of Greece | |
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In office 12 March 1924 – 24 July 1924 |
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| Preceded by | Georgios Kaphantaris |
| Succeeded by | Eleftherios Venizelos |
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In office May 26, 1932 – June 5, 1932 |
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| Preceded by | Eleftherios Venizelos |
| Succeeded by | Eleftherios Venizelos |
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8 July 1876 Tripoli, Greece |
| Died | 17 November 1936 (aged 60) Athens, Greece |
| Political party | Agricultural and Labour Party |
| Occupation | Lawyer, sociologist |
| Religion | Greek Orthodox |
Alexandros Papanastasiou (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Παπαναστασίου; * 8 July 1876 – 17 November 1936) was a Greek politician, sociologist and Prime Minister.
Papanastasiou was the son of Member of Parliament Panagiotis Papanastasiou. He spent part of his childhood in Kalamata (1876–1883) and Piraeus (1883–1889). He studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1895–1898), earning his doctorate in 1899 and a licence in 1901. From 1901 to 1905 he studied social science, law and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin and in Heidelberg. In 1905 he goes to London, later on to Paris, continuing with his studies until 1907, when he decides to return to Greece.
In 1910, Papanastasiou was elected for the first time to the Hellenic Parliament. He fought for agrarian reform in Thessaly seeking to break up the big farms that existed there since the rule of the Ottoman Empire and redistribute them to the local farmers. In 1916, he joined the Movement of National Defence of Eleftherios Venizelos in Thessaloniki which sought to bring Greece at the side of the Allies of World War I. He was immediately rewarded with the governorship of the Ionian Islands.
After World War I, Papanastasiou took part in several Venizelos governments as Minister of Transportation, Minister of National Health and Interior Minister. When Venizelos lost the 1920 elections, he remained in Greece and criticised the People's Party governments under the successive Prime Ministers Dimitrios Rallis, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Dimitrios Gounaris, Nikolaos Stratos and Petros Protopapadakis for their mishandling of the ongoing Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.
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