Giuseppe Motta

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Giuseppe Motta (Airolo, December 29, 1871 - January 23, 1940) was a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1911-1940) and President of the League of Nations (1924/1925).

Giuseppe Motta
Giuseppe Motta

He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 14, 1911, and died in office on January 23, 1940. He was affiliated with the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.

While in office he held the following departments:

He was President of the Confederation five times, in 1915, 1920, 1927, 1932 and 1937. He was also President of the League of Nations from 1924-25.

Among others, via Giuseppe Motta in Lugano, Chiasso, Minusio and Massagno, Piazza Giuseppe Motta in Ascona and Avenue Giuseppe-Motta in Geneva are named for him.

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Preceded by
Josef Anton Schobinger		 Member of the Swiss Federal Council
1911–1940		 Succeeded by
Enrico Celio
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Presidents of the General Assembly of the League of Nations

Paul Hymans (1920–21) · Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek (1921–22) · Augustín Edwards (1922–23) · Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza (1923–24) · Giuseppe Motta (1924–25) · Raoul Dandurand (1925–26) · Afonso Costa (1926) · Momčilo Ninčić (1926–27) · Alberto Guani (1927–28) · Herluf Zahle (1928–29) · José Gustavo Guerrero (1929–30) · Nicolae Titulescu (1930–32) · Paul Hymans (1932–33) · Charles Theodore Te Water (1933–34) · Richard Johannes Sandler (1934) · Francisco Castillo Nájera (1934–35) · Edvard Beneš (1935–36) · Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1936–37) · Tevfik Rüştü Aras (1937) · Aga Khan III (1937–38) · Éamon de Valera (1938–39) · Carl Joachim Hambro (1939–40, 1946)
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