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Stefanos Dragoumis
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<h2 id="early-years">Early years</h2> <p>Dragoumis was born in <a href="/facts/Athens/mBxlp8X1">Athens</a>. His grandfather, Markos Dragoumis (1770–1854), who was born in a prominent <a href="/facts/Greeks/wXwd2xlb">Greek</a> family<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> from <a href="/facts/Vogatsiko/NslDLLjj">Vogatsiko</a> in the present <a href="/facts/Kastoria_(regional_unit)/4QfoDBg0">Kastoria regional unit</a>, had been a member of the 1814–1821 revolutionary <a href="/facts/Filiki_Eteria/e6rh3c1R">Filiki Eteria</a>, while his father Nikolaos Dragoumis was a secretary of <a href="/facts/Ioannis_Kapodistrias/Kgry0fDF">Ioannis Kapodistrias</a>. Born in <a href="/facts/Athens/mBxlp8X1">Athens</a> in 1842, Dragoumis studied law at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Paris/yXAx8nlG">University of Paris</a> and became a judge. </p> <h2 id="political-career">Political career</h2> <p>He became Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice and was very active politically. He was later elected a member of <a href="/facts/Hellenic_Parliament/oSrjrDjp">Parliament</a> and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior. He was also active in the <a href="/facts/Macedonian_Struggle/DK8yYzAj">Macedonian Struggle</a>. The organization <i>Macedonian Committee</i> was formed in 1904 by Stephanos Dragoumis in Athens. </p> <h2 id="1909-reform-government">1909 reform government</h2> <p>Following the <a href="/facts/Goudi_Revolt/w3Xtzkvz">Goudi Revolt</a> by the <a href="/facts/Military_League/w3Xtzkvz">Military League</a> in 1909, the political processes in Greece were in a state of turmoil. The issue of <a href="/facts/Cretan_State/p1KKUh8Y">Cretan</a> annexation and military reforms loomed large. After <a href="/facts/Kiriakoulis_Mavromichalis/tcbdGNxN">Kiriakoulis Mavromichalis</a> resigned as Prime Minister in January 1910, Dragoumis was appointed as part of a reform government and the Military League dissolved. At the same time, <a href="/facts/Eleftherios_Venizelos/dSFGyNa7">Eleftherios Venizelos</a> arrived in Athens from Crete. In March, the Greek Parliament decided to convoke a Revisionary Parliament to revise the <a href="/facts/Greek_Constitution/e1jG8srK">Greek Constitution</a>. The Dragoumis government responded positively to the demands of its dual mission: to secure a smooth path towards the process of reform and to complete its legislative programme.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> By September, Venizelos had arrived in Athens and by drawing large crowds to rallies had established his political strength. <a href="/facts/George_I_of_Greece/cvAexhMQ">King George</a> invited Venizelos to form a government and Dragoumis resigned. </p> <h2 id="later-career">Later career</h2> <p>During the <a href="/facts/Balkan_Wars/NzG0UlCm">Balkan Wars</a>, he served as Governor-General of <a href="/facts/Crete/r6jWGjoQ">Crete</a>, and later (June 1913) of <a href="/facts/Macedonia_(Greece)/4VaoTIHa">Macedonia</a>. During the <a href="/facts/National_Schism/2hp3lsU4">National Schism</a>, he sided with the anti-<a href="/facts/Venizelist/vyyocXbt">Venizelist</a>, royalist faction. He was elected to Parliament in the <a href="/facts/December_1915_Greek_legislative_election/B1yNVEgs">December 1915 elections</a>, which the Venizelists boycotted, and served as Finance Minister in the <a href="/facts/Alexandros_Zaimis/QhAjpNDn">Alexandros Zaimis</a> and <a href="/facts/Stephanos_Skouloudis/HT6EVKMM">Stephanos Skouloudis</a> cabinets. Dragoumis was dismissed from his seat in 1917, when Venizelos re-instated the May 1915 Parliament ("Lazarus Parliament"), but was re-elected as an MP in the <a href="/facts/1920_Greek_legislative_election/wlKJJVhD">November 1920 elections</a>. He died in <a href="/facts/Athens/mBxlp8X1">Athens</a>. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Note: Greece officially adopted the Gregorian calendar on 16 February 1923 (which became 1 March). All dates prior to that, unless specifically denoted, are Old Style. <a href="/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_in_Eastern_Europe" target="_blank">/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_in_Eastern_Europe</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kamouzis, Dimitris (2020). Greeks in Turkey: Elite Nationalism and Minority Politics in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul. Routledge. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-000-33200-1. <a href="978-1-000-33200-1" target="_blank">978-1-000-33200-1</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>VenizelosNational Research Foundation Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.venizelos-foundation.gr/endocs/bio06-10.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.venizelos-foundation.gr/endocs/bio06-10.jsp</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>