Andreas Stephanopoulos was born in Pyrgos and was the son of Stephanos Stephanopoulos, a politician. He studied law and political sciences in Athens and Paris and was educated early as a politician. He was elected as a representative for Elis in the Greek parliament in 1892 with Charilaos Trikoupis' party and was re-elected every time until 1929. Then he became a senator, until the Greek Senate was abolished in 1935. He was Minister for Naval Affairs in the 1903 cabinet of Georgios Theotokis, and Minister for Education in the 1905 cabinet of Theotokis. He died in 1938. He was the brother of Christos Stefanopoulos.
