Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
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Senator for life Oscar Luigi Scalfaro |
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| 9th President of Italy | |
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In office 28 May 1992 – 15 May 1999 |
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| Prime Minister |
Giuliano Amato Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Silvio Berlusconi Lamberto Dini Romano Prodi Massimo D'Alema |
| Preceded by | Francesco Cossiga |
| Succeeded by | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi |
| President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 24 April 1992 – 25 May 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Leonilde Iotti |
| Succeeded by | Giorgio Napolitano |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 4 August 1983 – 28 July 1987 |
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| Prime Minister |
Bettino Craxi Amintore Fanfani |
| Preceded by | Virginio Rognoni |
| Succeeded by | Amintore Fanfani |
| Minister of Education | |
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In office 26 July 1972 – 7 July 1973 |
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| Prime Minister | Giulio Andreotti |
| Preceded by | Riccardo Misasi |
| Succeeded by | Franco Maria Malfatti |
| Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation | |
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In office 12 February 1972 – 26 July 1972 |
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| Prime Minister | Giulio Andreotti |
| Preceded by | Italo Viglianesi |
| Succeeded by | Aldo Bozzi |
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In office 23 February 1966 – 12 December 1968 |
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| Prime Minister |
Aldo Moro Giovanni Leone |
| Preceded by | Angelo Raffaele Jervolino |
| Succeeded by | Luigi Mariotti |
| Personal details | |
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9 September 1918 Novara, Italy |
| Died | 29 January 2012 (aged 93) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party |
DC (1946–1994) PPI (1994–2002) The Daisy (2002–2007) PD (2007–2012) |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Inzitari (1943–1944; her death) |
| Children | Marianna Scalfaro |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɔskar luˈiːdʒi ˈskalfaro]; 9 September 1918 – 29 January 2012) was an Italian politician and magistrate, the ninth President of the Italian Republic from 1992 to 1999, and subsequently a senator for life. Formerly a member of Christian Democracy, he belonged to the centre-left Democratic party.
Scalfaro was born in Novara, Province of Novara on 9 September 1918. He was raised in a religious atmosphere. He became a member of the association Azione Cattolica (Catholic Action) at the age of 12 and kept its badge on his lapel until his death.
Scalfaro studied law at Milan's Università Cattolica and graduated on 30 July 1941. On 21 October 1942, he entered the magistrature. In 1945, after the end of World War II, he became a public prosecuting attorney, and to date he is the last Italian attorney to have obtained a death sentence: in July of that year, along with two others, he was public prosecutor in the trial against former Novara prefect Enrico Vezzalini and servicemen Arturo Missiato, Domenico Ricci, Salvatore Santoro, Giovanni Zeno and Raffaele Infante, accused of "collaborating with the German invaders". After a three-day-long debate, all six were condemned to death. The sentence was carried out on 23 September 1945. Later on, he obtained one more death sentence, but the accused was pardoned before the execution could take place. In 1946 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly and later in 1948 he became a deputy representing the district of Turin. He was re-elected ten times in a row until 1992. Within the Democrazia Cristiana party he was associated with its right wing.
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