Alexandros Mavrokordatos
Alexandros Mavrokordatos Αλέξανδρος Μαυροκορδάτος | |
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President of the Executive | |
In office January 13, 1822 – May 10, 1823 | |
Succeeded by | Petros Mavromichalis |
Prime Minister of Greece | |
In office October 24, 1833 – June 12, 1834 | |
Monarch | Otto |
Preceded by | Spyridon Trikoupis |
Succeeded by | Ioannis Kolettis |
In office July 6, 1841 – August 22, 1841 | |
Monarch | Otto |
Preceded by | Otto |
Succeeded by | Otto |
In office April 11, 1844 – August 18, 1844 | |
Monarch | Otto |
Preceded by | Konstantinos Kanaris |
Succeeded by | Ioannis Kolettis |
In office July 29, 1854 – October 11, 1855 | |
Monarch | Otto |
Preceded by | Konstantinos Kanaris |
Succeeded by | Dimitrios Voulgaris |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Constantinople, Ottoman Empire | February 11, 1791
Died | August 18, 1865 Aegina, Greece | (aged 74)
Political party | English Party |
Spouse | Katerina Bals |
Alexandros Mavrokordatos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Μαυροκορδάτος; February 11, 1791 – August 18, 1865) was a Greek statesman and member of the Mavrocordatos family of Phanariotes.
In 1812, he went to the court of his uncle Jean Georges Caradja, Hospodar of Wallachia, with whom he passed into exile in the Austrian Empire (1818), where he studied at the University of Padua. He was a member of the Filiki Eteria and was among the Phanariot Greeks who hastened to Morea on the outbreak of the War of Independence in 1821. He was active in endeavouring to establish a regular government, and in January, 1822 he was elected by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus as the "President of the Executive".
He commanded the advance of the Greeks into western Central Greece the same year, and suffered a serious defeat at Peta on July 16, but retrieved this disaster somewhat by his successful resistance to the First Siege of Missolonghi (Nov. 1822 to Jan. 1823). His English sympathies brought him, in the subsequent strife of factions, into opposition to the "Russian" party headed by Demetrius Ypsilanti and Kolokotronis; and though he held the portfolio of foreign affairs for a short while under the presidency of Petrobey (Petros Mavromichalis), he was compelled to withdraw from affairs until February 1825, when he again became a Secretary of State. The landing of Ibrahim Pasha followed, and Mavrocordatos again joined the army, barely escaping capture in the disaster at Sphacteria, on May 9, 1825, on board the ship Ares.
After the fall of Missolonghi (April 22, 1826) he went into retirement, until President John Capodistria made him a member of the committee for the administration of war material, a position he resigned in 1828. After Kapodistria's murder (October 9, 1831) and the resignation of his brother and successor, Augustinos Kapodistrias (April 13, 1832), Mavrocordatos became Minister of Finance. He was Vice-President of the National Assembly at Argos (July, 1832), and was appointed by King Otto as his Minister of Finance, and in 1833 Premier.
From 1834 onwards, he was Greek envoy at Munich, Berlin, London and, after a short interlude again as Premier of Greece in 1841, he was appointed envoy to Constantinople. In 1843, after the September 3rd uprising, he returned to Athens as Minister without portfolio in the Metaxas cabinet, and from April to August 1844 was head of the government formed after the fall of the Russian party. Going into opposition, he distinguished himself by his violent attacks on the Kolettis government. In 1854-1855 he was again head of the government for a few months. He died in Aegina on 18 August 1865.
See also
Alexander Mavrocordatos | |||||||||||||||||||
Nicholas Mavrocordatos | |||||||||||||||||||
Sultana Chrysoscoleo | |||||||||||||||||||
Alexandros Mavrocordatos | |||||||||||||||||||
Panayotakis Stavropoleos | |||||||||||||||||||
Smaragda Stavropoleou | |||||||||||||||||||
Nicholas Mavrocordatos | |||||||||||||||||||
Constantin Cantacuzino | |||||||||||||||||||
Șerban Cantacuzino | |||||||||||||||||||
Helena Basarab | |||||||||||||||||||
Smaragda Cantacouzena | |||||||||||||||||||
Maria | |||||||||||||||||||
Alexandros Mavrokordatos | |||||||||||||||||||
Nicolae Caradja | |||||||||||||||||||
Smaragda Caradja | |||||||||||||||||||
References
- E. Legrand, Généalogie des Mavrocordato (Paris, 1886).
- ^ 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.
- 1791 births
- 1865 deaths
- 19th-century Greek people
- Mavrocordatos family
- Members of the Filiki Eteria
- Greek people of the Greek War of Independence
- Foreign ministers of Greece
- Prime Ministers of Greece
- People from Istanbul
- History of Greece (1832–1862)
- Speakers of the Hellenic Parliament
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the Redeemer
- Burials at the First Cemetery of Athens