Died 1952-12-01.
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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando was an Italian statesman, who served as the prime minister of Italy from October 1917 to June 1919. Orlando is best known for representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. He was also known as "Premier of Victory" for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I. Italy entered into World War I in 1915…
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Born 19 May 1860 · Died 1 December 1952 · Q297793
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Died 1952-12-01.
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Was a candidate for the presidency of the republic (elected by Parliament) but was defeated by Luigi Einaudi
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Career landmark: member of the Senate of the Italian Republic (1948–1952).
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Was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Italy
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Career landmark: member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy (1946–1948).
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Career landmark: member of the National Council of the Kingdom of Italy (1945–1946).
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Made something of a political comeback
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Career landmark: President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy (1944–1945).
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Orlando stated in the Italian senate that he was proud of being mafioso and intended it to mean a "man of honor" but making no admission of links to organized crime, saying that "if by the word 'mafia' we understand a se
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Until 1935, when Mussolini's march into Ethiopia stirred Orlando's nationalism
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Awarded Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1924).
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Orlando initially tactically supported him, but broke with him over the murder of Giacomo Matteotti in 1924
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1921–1924).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1919–1921).
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Earned for Orlando the title "Premier of Victory
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1917–1919).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1916–1919).
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With the aim of completing national unity: for this reason, it is also considered the Fourth Italian War of Independence, in a historiographical perspective that identifies in the latter the conclusion of the unification
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Career landmark: minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Italy (1914–1916).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1913–1919).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1909–1913).
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Was appointed Minister of Justice, a role he retained until 1909
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Career landmark: minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Italy (1907–1909).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1904–1909).
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Career landmark: minister of Public Education of the Kingdom of Italy (1903–1905).
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Served as Minister of Education under Prime Minister Giolitti
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1897–1900).
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Was elected in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei Deputati) for the district of Partinico for which he was constantly reelected until 1925
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Studied at University of Palermo (1877).
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Born 1860-05-19.
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