Ferruccio Parri

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Ferruccio Parri

In office
June 21, 1945 – December 8, 1945
Preceded by Ivanoe Bonomi
Succeeded by Alcide De Gasperi

Born January 19, 1890
Pinerolo, Italy
Died December 8, 1981
Rome, Italy
Political party Partito d'Azione

Ferruccio Parri (January 19, 1890December 8, 1981), of Pinerolo was an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy for several months in 1945.

A soldier during World War I, he became active against Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime and joined Carlo and Nello Rosselli's group Giustizia e Libertà. During World War II, Parri joined the Italian resistance movement to fight the Nazi German occupiers and Mussolini's Italian Social Republic, leading the Partito d'Azione partisan groups in northern Italy (alongside representatives of other factions, such as Sandro Pertini, Rodolfo Morandi, and Lelio Basso).

In 1963, he was appointed by President Giuseppe Sargat senator for life. He adhered to the Independent Left group, and was for long its chairman.

Preceded by
Ivanoe Bonomi
Prime Minister of Italy
1945
Succeeded by
Alcide De Gasperi
Preceded by
Ivanoe Bonomi
Italian Minister of the Interior
1945
Succeeded by
Giuseppe Romita