biography
pronunciation:
[day neekola]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1959)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy. A criminal lawyer, he became a deputy of the liberal right in 1909, and held a number of posts until 1923. He was temporary head of state in 1946 and the first president of the new Italian republic in 1948. He became president of the senate (1951–2) and of the Constitutional Court (1956–7). |
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