Thrasyvoulos Zaimis (, 1822–1880) was a Greek politician and the 21st

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. Zaimis was born in

Kerpini Kerpini (), is a small mountain village in the north of the municipality of Kalavryta in Achaea, Greece. It is 5 km west of Kato Zachlorou and 5 km north of Kalavryta town. Notable people Kerpini was the home of the Zaimis family which produc ...

Kalavryta Kalavryta () is a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece. The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos, south of Aigio, southeast of Patras and northwest of Tripoli, G ...

on 29 October 1822, the son of

Andreas Zaimis Andreas Asimakis Zaimis (; 1791 – 4 May 1840) was a Greek freedom fighter and government leader during the Greek War of Independence.Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. Zaimis studied law in

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and was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 1850. He served four terms as President of Parliament and also as minister in several governments. In 1864, he was the representative of the Greek government who accepted the cession of the

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from the

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government, a gift that coincided with the enthronement of King George of Greece. Zaimis served two terms as prime minister and died in

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on 27 October 1880. Thrasyvoulos Zaimis was the father of

Alexandros Zaimis Alexandros Zaimis (, Romanization, romanized: ''Aléxandros Zaímis''; 28 October 1855 – 15 September 1936) was a Greeks, Greek politician who served as Greece's Prime Minister of Greece, Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior (Greece), Minist ...

, also a Prime Minister of Greece.

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