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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 918 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRINCE See also:ALEXANDER See also:MAVROCORDATO (1791–1865)  , See also:Greek statesman, a descendant of the hospodars, was See also:horn at See also:Constantinople on the r rth of See also:February 1791 . In 1812 he went to the See also:court of his See also:uncle Ioannes Caradja, See also:hospodar of See also:Walachia, with whom he passed into See also:exile in See also:Russia and See also:Italy (1817) . He was a member of the Hetairia Philike and was among the Phanariot Greeks who hastened to the Morea on the outbreak of the See also:War of See also:Independence in 1821 . He was active in endeavouring to establish a See also:regular See also:government, and in See also:January 1822 presided over the first Greek See also:national See also:assembly at See also:Epidaurus . He commanded the advance of the Greeks into western Hellas the same See also:year, and suffered a defeat at Peta on the 16th of See also:July, but retrieved this disaster somewhat by his successful resistance to the first See also:siege of See also:Missolonghi (Nov . 1822 to See also:Jan . 1823) . His See also:English sympathies brought him, in the subsequent strife of factions, into opposition to the " See also:Russian " party headed by See also:Demetrius See also:Ypsilanti and Kolokotrones; and though he held the See also:portfolio of See also:foreign affairs for a See also:short while under the See also:presidency of Petrobey (Petros Mavromichales), he was compelled to with-draw from affairs until February 1825, when he again became a secretary of See also:state . The landing of See also:Ibrahim See also:Pasha followed, and See also:Mavrocordato again joined the See also:army, only escaping See also:capture in the disaster at Sphagia (Spakteria), on the 9th of May 1815, by See also:swimming to See also:Navarino . After the fall of Missolonghi (See also:April 22, 1826) he went into retirement, until See also:President See also:Capo d'See also:Istria made him a member of the See also:committee for the See also:administration of war material, a position he resigned in 1828 . After Capo d'Istria's See also:murder (Oct . 9, 1831) and the resignation of his See also:brother and successor, See also:Agostino Capo d'Istria (April 13, 1832), Mavrocordato became See also:minister of See also:finance .

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vice-president of the National Assembly at See also:Argos (July, 1832), and was appointed by See also:King See also:Otto minister of finance, and in 1833 premier . From 1834 onwards he was Greek See also:envoy at See also:Munich, See also:Berlin, See also:London and—after a short interlude as premier in See also:Greece in 1841—Constantinople . In 1843, after the revolution of See also:September, he returned to See also:Athens as minister without portfolio in the See also:Metaxas See also:cabinet, and from April to See also:August 1844 was See also:head of the government formed after the fall of the " Russian " party . Going into opposition, he distinguished himself by his violent attacks on the Kolettis government . In 1854–1855 he was again head of the government for a few months . He died in See also:Aegina on the 18th of August 1865 . See E . Legrand, Genealogic See also:des Mavrocardato (See also:Paris, 1886) .

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