Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | |
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Prime Minister of Italy | |
In office 30 October 1917 – 23 June 1919 | |
Monarch | Victor Emmanuel III |
Preceded by | Paolo Boselli |
Succeeded by | Francesco Saverio Nitti |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 18 June 1916 – 23 June 1919 | |
Prime Minister | Paolo Boselli Himself |
Preceded by | Antonio Salandra |
Succeeded by | Francesco Saverio Nitti |
President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 15 July 1944 – 25 July 1946 | |
Monarchs | Victor Emmanuel III Umberto II |
Preceded by | Dino Grandi |
Succeeded by | Giuseppe Saragat |
In office 1 December 1919 – 25 June 1920 | |
Monarch | Victor Emmanuel III |
Preceded by | Giuseppe Marcora |
Succeeded by | Enrico De Nicola |
Member of the Senate of the Republic | |
In office 8 May 1948 – 1 December 1952 (Ex officio)[1] | |
Member of the Constituent Assembly | |
In office 25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948 | |
Constituency | Italy at-large |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 5 April 1897 – 21 January 1929 | |
Constituency | Partinico |
Personal details | |
Born | Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | 19 May 1860
Died | 1 December 1952 Rome, Italy | (aged 92)
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Historical Left (1897–1913) Liberal Union (1913–1919) Democratic Liberal Party (1919–1926) Italian Liberal Party (1926–1952) |
Alma mater | University of Palermo |
Profession | Jurist, teacher, politician |
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (19 May 1860 – 1 December 1952) was an Italian statesman, who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from October 1917 to June 1919. Orlando is best known for representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. He was also known as "Premier of Victory" for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I.[2] He was also the provisional President of the Chamber of Deputies between 1943 and 1945, and a member of the Constituent Assembly that changed the Italian form of government into a republic. Aside from his prominent political role, Orlando was a professor of law and is known for his writings on legal and judicial issues, which number over a hundred works.[3]