Amintore Fanfani

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Amintore Fanfani

In office
June 15, 1978 – July 9, 1978
Preceded by Giovanni Leone
Succeeded by Alessandro Pertini

In office
18 January 1954 – 8 February 1954
1 July 195815 February 1959
26 July 196021 June 1963
1 December 19824 August 1983
17 April 198728 July 1987
Preceded by Giuseppe Pella
Adone Zoli
Fernando Tambroni
Giovanni Spadolini
Bettino Craxi
Succeeded by Mario Scelba
Antonio Segni
Giovanni Leone
Bettino Craxi
Giovanni Goria

Born 6 February 1908
Flag of Italy Province of Arezzo, Italy
Died 20 November 1999 (age 91)
Flag of Italy Rome, Italy
Political party Christian Democracy

Amintore Fanfani (6 February 190820 November 1999) was an Italian politician and Prime Minister. He was interim President of Italy in June-July 1978.

[edit] Biography

He was born in Pieve Santo Stefano in the province of Arezzo.

Fanfani participated in 1945 in the formation of the Democrazia Cristiana, the Italian Christian Democracy party, and was a member thereafter. After 1947 he was a member of the cabinet and Prime Minister several times, 1954, 1958-1959, 1960 - 1963, 1982 - 1983, and 1987. He was a proponent of ideas of social reform and stood for Italian development and agrarian reforms. From 1965 - 1966 Fanfani was President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Fanfani died in Rome in 1999.

Preceded by
Mario Scelba
Italian Minister of the Interior
1953–1954
Succeeded by
Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by
Giuseppe Pella
Prime Minister of Italy
1954
Succeeded by
Mario Scelba
Preceded by
Adone Zoli
Prime Minister of Italy
1958–1959
Succeeded by
Antonio Segni
Preceded by
Giuseppe Pella
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1958–1959
Succeeded by
Giuseppe Pella
Preceded by
Fernando Tambroni
Prime Minister of Italy
1960–1963
Succeeded by
Giovanni Leone
Preceded by
Antonio Segni
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1962
Succeeded by
Attilio Piccioni
Preceded by
Aldo Moro
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1965
Succeeded by
Aldo Moro
Preceded by
Alex Quaison-Sackey
President of the United Nations General Assembly
1965–1966
Succeeded by
Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
Preceded by
Aldo Moro
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1966–1968
Succeeded by
Giuseppe Medici
Preceded by
Ennio Zelioli-Lanzini
President of the Italian Senate
1968-1973
Succeeded by
Giovanni Spagnoli
Preceded by
Giovanni Spagnolli
President of the Italian Senate
1976-1982
Succeeded by
Tommaso Morlino
Preceded by
Giovanni Leone
President of the Italian Republic (ad interim)
1978
Succeeded by
Alessandro Pertini
Preceded by
Giovanni Spadolini
Prime Minister of Italy
1982–1983
Succeeded by
Bettino Craxi
Preceded by
Francesco Cossiga
President of the Italian Senate
1985-1987
Succeeded by
Giovanni Francesco Malagodi
Preceded by
Bettino Craxi
Prime Minister of Italy
1987
Succeeded by
Giovanni Goria
Preceded by
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Italian Minister of the Interior
1987–1988
Succeeded by
Antonio Gava
Preceded by
Alcide De Gasperi
Secretary of the Italian Christian Democracy
1954-1959
Succeeded by
Aldo Moro
Preceded by
Arnaldo Forlani
Secretary of the Italian Christian Democracy
1973-1975
Succeeded by
Benigno Zaccagnini
Preceded by
Bettino Craxi
Chair of the G8
1987
Succeeded by
Brian Mulroney