Background
Tsaldaris was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
Tsaldaris was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
He studied law at the University of Athens as well as Berlin, London and Florence.
He became a prefectural politician from 1915 to 1917. In 1926, he was elected as a deputy for the first time in the Argolidocorinthia prefecture (now split into Argolis and Corinthia) with the Freethinkers" Party of Ioannis Metaxas. He entered Panagis Tsaldaris" second government as Vice Minister of Transportation from 1933 to 1935, and continued as Under-Secretary to the Prime Minister.
His government carried out the plebiscite on the return of the monarchy in August 1946.
During 1947-1949 he acted as the head of the Greek representation in the United Nations General Assembly. He was Deputy Prime Minister during the governments of Dimitrios Maximos (1947), Themistoklis Sophoulis (1947–1949) and Alexandros Diomidis (1949–1950).
He once again became prime minister from August 1947 until September of the same year. He was voted into Parliament with the Liberal Democratic Union, in the 1956 elections, but in the 1958 elections, as head of the Union of Populars, he failed to be elected.
Shortly afterwards he ended his political career.
He died in Athens in 1970.
People"s Party, People"s Party, Freethinkers" Party.
After the death of Panagis Tsaldaris in 1936, he became a member of the administrative commission of the People"s Party, which was however soon dissolved under the dictatorship of Metaxas.