Phaedon Gizikis (16 June 1917-27 July 1999) was President of Greece from 25 November 1973 to 17 December 1974, succeeding Georgios Papadopoulos and preceding Michail Stasinopoulos.
Biography[]
Phaedon Gizikis was born in Volos, Greece in 1917, and he served in the Greek Army during the Greco-Italian War of World War II and later the Greek Civil War. He supported Georgios Papadopoulos' 1967 coup and rose in the ranks of the dictatorial Regime of the Colonels, becoming President in 1973 after Papadopoulos was ousted from power by Dimitrios Ioannidis. After the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, he temporarily continued to serve as President before Michail Stasinopoulos replaced him. He was acquitted of participating in the dictatorship, and he died in 1999.