Phaedon Gizikis (June 16, 1917 – July 27, 1999) was a Greek Army officer and President of Greece

President of Greece

The President of the Hellenic Republic , colloquially referred to in English as the President of Greece, is the head of state of Greece. The office of the President of the Republic was established after the Greek republic referendum, 1974 and formally by the Constitution of Greece in 1975. The...

 from 1973 to 1974.

Born on 16 June 1917, in Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

, Greece, Phaedon Gizikis was a career Greek

Greece

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 army officer. In 1967 he supported the Georgios Papadopoulos' coup d'etat

Coup d'état

A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...

 and received a number of senior military posts during the dictatorship that followed.

He was given the figurehead title of President of the Republic

President of Greece

The President of the Hellenic Republic , colloquially referred to in English as the President of Greece, is the head of state of Greece. The office of the President of the Republic was established after the Greek republic referendum, 1974 and formally by the Constitution of Greece in 1975. The...

 on 25 November 1973, after Papadopoulos was ousted by Dimitrios Ioannides

Dimitrios Ioannides

Dimitrios Ioannidis , also known as Dimitris Ioannidis, was a Greek military officer and one of the leading figures in the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.He was born in Athens to a wealthy, upper middle-class business family with roots in Epirus....

 as head of the regime in an internal power struggle.

After the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, he retained his post for four months pro tempore

Pro tempore

Pro tempore , abbreviated pro tem or p.t., is a Latin phrase which best translates to "for the time being" in English. This phrase is often used to describe a person who acts as a locum tenens in the absence of a superior, such as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate.Legislative...

until a new constitution could be enacted during metapolitefsi

Metapolitefsi

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; he was then replaced by Michail Stasinopoulos

Michail Stasinopoulos

Michael Stasinopoulos was a Greek politician. He served as the interim President of the Third Hellenic Republic between 18 December 1974 and 19 June 1975.-Biography:...

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Later he retired from the army. In 1976, a military judicial council dropped proceedings against him and 88 other former officers charged with treason and mutiny for collaborating with the former junta.. He died on July 27, 1999 at the NIMTS military hospital in Athens.