Ioannis Charalambopoulos
| Ioannis Charalambopoulos Ιωάννης Χαραλαμπόπουλος |
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| Born |
February 10, 1919 Psari, Greece |
| Died | October 16, 2014 (aged 95) |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Political party | Panhellenic Socialist Movement |
| Profession | Army officer, politician |
| Religion | Greek Orthodoxy |
Ioannis Charalambopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Χαραλαμπόπουλος; February 10, 1919 – October 16, 2014) was a Greek Army officer (Colonel of the Engineering Corps) and socialist politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of National Defence of Greece.
Charalambopoulos was born in 1919 in Psari, Messenia, to a military family. He studied at the Hellenic Army Academy and completed his studies with a scholarship at Woolwich Polytechnic after World War II. During the war, he served as the commander of an infantry unit during the Greco-Italian War and later in the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre. He left the army in 1963 with the rank of Colonel and became a politician in the Center Union, being elected to Parliament representing Messenia in the 1963 and 1964 elections.
During the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, Charalambopoulos founded the Democratic National Resistance Movement, and spent three years in internal exile for his opposition to the regime. After the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, Charalambopoulos became a founding member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, and was elected to Parliament on its lists in all elections from 1974 to 2000, representing the Athens B constituency.
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