Pietro Nenni
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| In office December 12, 1968 – August 5, 1969 |
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| Prime Minister | Mariano Rumor |
| Preceded by | Giuseppe Medici |
| Succeeded by | Aldo Moro |
| In office October 18, 1946 – January 28, 1947 |
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| Prime Minister | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Preceded by | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Succeeded by | Carlo Sforza |
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Lifetime Senator
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| In office 1970 – January 1, 1980 |
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| Preceded by | New Constituency |
| Succeeded by | None |
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| In office 1943 – 1945 |
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| Preceded by | New Party |
| Succeeded by | Sandro Pertini |
| In office 1948 – 1949 |
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| Preceded by | Alberto Jacometti |
| Succeeded by | Francesco De Martino |
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| Born | February 9, 1891 Faenza, Italy |
| Died | January 1, 1980 (aged 88) Rome, Italy |
| Political party | Partito Socialista |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Pietro Sandro Nenni (February 9, 1891 — January 1, 1980) was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1951.
[edit] Early life and career
Born in Faenza, Nenni was a pacifist journalist affiliated with the Italian Republican Party before World War I, but joined the Socialist Party in 1921, at the moment of its split with the wing that would form the Communist Party (PCI). In 1923 (after the Fascist March on Rome, he became the editor of PSI's official voice, Avanti!, and engaged in anti-Fascist activism before taking refuge to France. Nenni went on to fight with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, returning to Italy during World War II in order to fight in the resistance movement.
A daughter, Viva, died in Auschwitz. She is memorialized in the writings of Charlotte Delbo.
[edit] Post-war politics
In 1944, he became the national secretary of the PSI, favoring close ties between his party and the PCI. This policy caused the Giuseppe Saragat-led anti-Communist wing of the PSI to leave and form the Italian Socialist Workers' Party in 1947 (later merged into the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, PSDI). Nenni himself split with the PCI after Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary (in 1956). He formed a center-left coalition together with Saragat, Aldo Moro and Ugo La Malfa, and favored a reunion with the PSDI.
He died in Rome in 1980.
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| Preceded by Alcide De Gasperi |
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1946–1947 |
Succeeded by Carlo Sforza |
| Preceded by Giuseppe Medici |
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1968–1969 |
Succeeded by Aldo Moro |
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| Preceded by New Party |
Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party 1943 - 1945 |
Succeeded by Sandro Pertini |
| Preceded by Alberto Jacometti |
Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party 1948 - 1949 |
Succeeded by Francesco De Martino |
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