Aristídis Bassiákos

Aristeides Basiakos with the 37th President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon in Thessaloniki (30 September 1947)

Aristides Basiakos (or Aristeidis Bassiakos) of Evangelos (17 July 1902 – 29 June 1981 ) was a Greek lawyer and politician. He served for years as an MP for the region of Boeotia and Governor-General of Northern Greece in the 1947 Sofoulis cabinet.

Biography Born in Thebes. He studied and practiced law.

He was elected for the first time as MP in the Fourth National Assembly at Argos.

He was re-elected as MP for Attica and Boeotia in the 1946 Greek legislative election and in 1961 Greek legislative election with the National Radical Union.

He served as Governor-General of Northern Greece in the 1947 Sofoulis cabinet from 19 September 1947 until 7 May 1948.

His brother, Athanasios Basiakos was married to Aikaterini Basiakou, who died in October 2013.

His nephew, Evangelos Basiakos, later became MP with New Democracy. He served as Minister for Agricultural Development and Food in the First Cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis from 2004 to 2007. He had a son with Vikentia Syropoulou, Athanasios-Aristides Basiakos, who took the name of Aristides Basiakos for honorary and historical reasons.

He died on 29 June 1981 and his funeral took place the next day in the Church of Saint George in Thebes.