Bernardo Mattarella
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The Honourable Bernardo Mattarella |
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| Minister of Agriculture and Forests | |
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In office 21 June 1963 – 4 December 1963 |
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| Prime Minister | Giovanni Leone |
| Preceded by | Mariano Rumor |
| Succeeded by | Mario Ferrari Aggradi |
| Minister of Posts and Telecommunications | |
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In office 19 May 1957 – 1 July 1958 |
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| Prime Minister | Adone Zoli |
| Preceded by | Giovanni Braschi |
| Succeeded by | Alberto Simonini |
| Minister of International Commerce | |
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In office 4 December 1963 – 23 February 1966 |
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| Prime Minister | Aldo Moro |
| Preceded by | Giuseppe Trabucchi |
| Succeeded by | Giusto Tolloy |
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In office 6 July 1955 – 19 May 1957 |
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| Prime Minister | Antonio Segni |
| Preceded by | Mario Martinelli |
| Succeeded by | Guido Carli |
| Minister of Transports | |
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In office 18 August 1953 – 6 July 1955 |
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| Prime Minister |
Giuseppe Pella Amintore Fanfani Mario Scelba |
| Preceded by | Giuseppe Togni |
| Succeeded by | Armando Angelini |
| Minister of Merchant Navy | |
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In office 16 July 1953 – 18 August 1953 |
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| Prime Minister | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Preceded by | Pietro Campilli |
| Succeeded by | Costantino Bresciani Turroni |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 September 1905 Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy |
| Died | 1 March 1971 (aged 65) Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Christian Democracy |
| Children |
Piersanti Sergio |
| Residence | Palermo, Sicily |
| Alma mater | University of Palermo |
Bernardo Mattarella (15 September 1905 – 1 March 1971) was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party (Democrazia Cristiana, DC). He has been Minister of Italy several times. He was the father of Piersanti Mattarella and Sergio Mattarella, who both became politicians as well; Sergio is the President of the Italian Republic since 3 February 2015 and Piersanti was President of the Regional Government of Sicily, before being assassinated in 1980 by Cosa Nostra.
Bernardo Mattarella was born in Castellammare del Golfo, in the province of Trapani in western Sicily as the eldest of seven children in a family of humble origins. His father was a sailor. In 1924, he became the secretary of the Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano), the predecessor of the Christian Democrat party (DC), in Castellammare.
An anti-fascist, he graduated in law in Palermo, where he lived until the Allied invasion of Sicily. He moved to Rome, where he took part in the founding of the DC in May 1943 with Alcide De Gasperi. After the invasion of Sicily by allied forces in July 1943, he moved back to Palermo where he became one of the co-founders of the DC on the island and was nominated in the municipal council of Palermo by the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT).
He held the position of Deputy Minister for Public Education in the governments led by Ivanoe Bonomi (1944–1945). In the June 1946 he was elected to the Italian Constituent Assembly and in 1948 to the new Republican Parliament. He would be re-elected in 1953, 1958, 1963 and 1968.
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