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Camillo Benso

The Honourable Grace
Camillo Benso di Cavour
SOMHA, OSML, COS
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1st Prime Minister of Italy
In office
23 March 1861 – 6 June 1861
Monarch Victor Emmanuel II
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Bettino Ricasoli
9th Prime Minister of Sardinia
In office
21 January 1860 – 23 March 1861
Monarch Victor Emmanuel II
Preceded by Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora
Succeeded by Office abolished
In office
4 November 1852 – 19 July 1859
Monarch Victor Emmanuel II
Preceded by Massimo D'Azeglio
Succeeded by Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora
Minister of Finances
In office
19 April 1851 – 11 May 1852
Monarch Victor Emmanuel II
Prime Minister Massimo D'Azeglio
Preceded by Giovanni Nigra
Succeeded by Luigi Cibrario
Minister of Agriculture and Trade
In office
11 October 1850 – 11 May 1852
Monarch Victor Emmanuel II
Prime Minister Massimo D'Azeglio
Preceded by Pietro De Rossi di Santarosa
Succeeded by Giuseppe Natoli (1861)
Member of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies
In office
30 June 1848 – 17 March 1861
Constituency Turin
Personal details
Born (1810-08-10)August 10, 1810
Turin, French Empire
Died June 6, 1861(1861-06-06) (aged 50)
Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality Piedmontese-Italian
Political party Historical Right
Religion Deist or Atheist
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Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri (August 10, 1810 – June 6, 1861), generally known as Count Cavour (Italian: [kaˈvur]) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was one of the leaders of the Historical Right, and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy. After the declaration of a united Kingdom of Italy, Cavour took office as the first Prime Minister of Italy; he died after only three months in office, and thus did not live to see Venetia or Rome added to the new Italian nation.

Cavour put forth several economic reforms in his native region of Piedmont in his earlier years, and founded the political newspaper Il Risorgimento. After being elected to the Chamber of Deputies, he quickly rose in rank through the Piedmontese government, coming to dominate the Chamber of Deputies through a union of left-center and right-center politicians. After a large rail system expansion program, Cavour became prime minister in 1852. As prime minister, Cavour successfully negotiated Piedmont's way through the Crimean War, the Second Italian War of Independence, and Garibaldi's expeditions, managing to maneuver Piedmont diplomatically to become a new great power in Europe, controlling a nearly united Italy that was five times as large as Piedmont had been before he came to power.


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