Konstantinos Kallias
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Konstantinos Kallias was a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 politician.

He was born in Chalkis. He co-founded with Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos was a distinguished Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He was the Prime Minister of Greece deposed by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974....

 the National Unionist Party. He served in many ministerial positions, including Minister for Justice
Minister for Justice (Greece)
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 (1958) and vice-president of New Democracy
New Democracy (Greece)
New Democracy is the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece. It was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic...

 under Konstantinos Karamanlis (1975-1976). He was elected to the European Parliament
European Parliament
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 in 1981. In 2003 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest active writer of an autobiography
Autobiography
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, at the age of 102. He died, aged 102, on April 7, 2004.
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