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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician after the DC's dissolution in 1992, and was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007. Before his election to the Presidency, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Turin for 44 years fro…
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politics · President of Italy from 1992 to 1999 · politician · lawyer · also Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Scalfaro
Born 9 September 1918 · Died 29 January 2012 · Q1228
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Died 2012-01-29.
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Career landmark: Italian senator for life (1999–2012).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (1997).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (1997).
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Awarded Grand Order of King Tomislav presented by Franjo Tuđman (1997).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Michal Kováč (1997).
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Awarded Order of the Three Stars, 1st Class presented by Guntis Ulmanis (1997).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic presented by Juan Carlos I of Spain (1996).
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Awarded Order of the White Eagle presented by Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1996).
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Won Masaryk University Gold Medal (1995).
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Won Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1995).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1993).
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Career landmark: President of Italy (1992–1999).
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And was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1992–1992).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1987–1992).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of the Interior (1987–1987).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of the Interior (1986–1987).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1983–1987).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of the Interior (1983–1986).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1979–1983).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1976–1979).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1972–1976).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Transports (1972–1972).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Education (1972–1973).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Transports (1968–1968).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1968–1972).
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Career landmark: Italian Minister of Transports (1966–1968).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1963–1968).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1958–1963).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1953–1958).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1948–1953).
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Was elected to the Constituent Assembly and later in 1948, he became a deputy representing the district of Turin
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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 a public prosecu
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Scalfaro lost his 20-year-old wife Maria Inzitari, by whom he had a daughter, Marianna
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Born 1918-09-09.
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