Ettore Sacchi
Ettore Sacchi | |
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Minister of Grace and Justice | |
In office 18 June 1916 – 18 January 1919 | |
Prime Minister | Paolo Boselli Vittorio Emanuele Orlando |
Preceded by | Vittorio Emanuele Orlando |
Succeeded by | Luigi Facta |
In office 8 February 1906 – 29 May 1906 | |
Prime Minister | Sidney Sonnino |
Preceded by | Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile |
Succeeded by | Nicolò Gallo |
Minister of Public Works | |
In office 31 March 1910 – 29 March 1911 | |
Prime Minister | Luigi Luzzatti |
Preceded by | Giulio Rubini |
Succeeded by | Augusto Ciuffelli |
Personal details | |
Born | Cremona,Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia | 31 May 1851
Died | 6 April 1924 Rome,Kingdom of Italy | (aged 72)
Nationality | Italian |
Political party | Radical Party |
Occupation | Lawyer and politician |
Ettore Sacchi(31 May 1851 – 6 April 1924) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He was one of the founders and main leaders of theItalian Radical Party.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ettore Sacchi was born inCremonain theKingdom of Lombardy–Venetiaon 31 May 1851. He graduated in law at theUniversity of Pavia.During these years he became a member of theHistorical Far Left,thefar-leftmovement active in Italy in the second party of the 19th century.
After the1882 general electionSacchi became a member of theItalian Chamber of Deputies.In 1898 after the death of the left-wing leaderFelice Cavallotti,Sacchi became the new head of The Extreme and started a process of modernization that ended in 1904, when he officially founded theItalian Radical Party.
Sacchi abandoned increasingly left-wing ideologies, switching the PR into a more moderate party. Moreover, after the assassination of KingUmberto I,Sacchi exalted him and for this was accused ofmonarchism,by thesocialists.
In 1906 he becameMinister of Grace and Justiceunder the premiership ofSidney Sonninoand in 1910 he was appointed byLuigi Luzzatti,Minister of Public Works.
In 1910s Sacchi implemented a politician alliance with the dominant leader of that decade,Giovanni Giolitti,who led the centristLiberal Union.
WhenWorld War Ibroke out, Sacchi was one of the main supporters ofneutralism.In 1916 Sacchi was appointed again Minister of Justice, in the cabinets of the liberalsPaolo BoselliandVittorio Emanuele Orlando.
In 1919 Sacchi resigned and removed the support to Orlando's government, but in thegeneral electionof the same year the Radicals lost many votes and in the1921 election,Sacchi did not succeed in being re-elected in theItalian Parliament.
Sacchi died inRomeon 6 April 1924, in poverty.[2]
References
[edit]- ^Storia dei partiti politici italiani
- ^"Cremona ricorda Sacchi".Archived fromthe originalon 2006-05-12.Retrieved2016-05-19.
External links
[edit]Media related toEttore Sacchiat Wikimedia Commons
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