Dimitrios Gontikas

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Dimitrios Gontikas Δημήτριος Γόντικας
Born	1888 Magouliana, Ilia, Greece )
Died	1967 Greece
Occupation	politician, president of the Greek Parliament

Dimtrios Gontikas or Gondikas (Greek: Δημήτριος Γόντικας, 1888 - 1967) was a Greek historian and a linguist.

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Gontikas was born in a village named Magouliana in the highland of Arcadia. He later studied law at the University of Patras. He was shortly a judge in Pyrgos until 1936 when he was elected to the Liberal Party as a Ilia politician. In the elections of 1946, 1950 and 1951, he was elected with the Liberals, in 1956, with the Democratic Union and returned to the Liberal Party in 1958, he switched to ERE in 1961.

He participated as a minister in many governments. He was concentrically biennially a provision minister during the Sofoulis and the Sophoklis Venizelos governments and a defense minister during the Papagos rule. He became president of the Greek Parliament from 1950 until 1952. He was also president of the Greek-American Institute in Athens.

Gondikas was married and had two children Kostis, a politician and Ilia.

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