Christos Stephanopoulos (Greek: Χρήστος Στεφανόπουλος, 1853 in the Ilia prefecture - 1918) was a Greek

Greece

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 politician and mayor of Pyrgos.

Christos Stephanopoulos was born in Divri

Lampeia

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 and was the son of Stephanos Stephanopoulos the elder, a politician and the relative of the historic Stephanopoulos

Stephanopoulos

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 family. He studied law at Athens

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 and was married to Fani Vakalopoulou (Φανή Βακαλοπούλου). One of his son was Georgios Stephanopoulos.

In his first political years of his career, he tried to become mayor of Divri but later, he was elected politician for Ilia in 1885, 1887, 1892, 1895, 1902, 1905 and 1906. In 1907, he was elected mayor of Pyrgos and ran until his death in 1918.