Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa
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Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa | |
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8th President of the Senate | |
In office 5 December 1870 – 20 September 1874 | |
Preceded by | Gabrio Casati |
Succeeded by | Luigi Des Ambrois |
Personal details | |
Born | Trapani, Kingdom of Sicily | 16 July 1808
Died | 12 January 1889 Palermo, Kingdom of Italy | (aged 80)
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Moderate Party (1848–1861) Historical Right (1861–1873) |
Profession | Politician |
Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa (16 July 1808 – 12 January 1889) was an Italian statesman who become President of the Senate after Italian unification.[citation needed]
Life[]
Born in Trapani, was Count and Marquis of Torrearsa. He was a protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento. In Sicilian revolution of 1848 was president of Sicilian Parliament. Fardella was then in exile in Turin, London and Nice.
In 1860 following the expedition of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille was minister in the Dictatorship of Garibaldi. In 1861 he was elected Member of Italian Chamber of Deputies and soon after appointed Senator of the Kingdom.
In 1870, after the capture of Rome, he was elected president of the Senate of Italy, the first in Palazzo Madama, until 1874.
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- 1808 births
- 1889 deaths
- People from Trapani
- Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy
- Presidents of the Italian Senate
- Margraves of Italy
- Members of the Sicilian Parliament
- 19th-century Italian politicians
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Kingdom of Italy)
- Italian politician stubs