Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Official portrait, 1992
9th President of Italy
In office
28 May 1992 – 15 May 1999
Prime Minister
Preceded byFrancesco Cossiga
Succeeded byCarlo Azeglio Ciampi
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
24 April 1992 – 25 May 1992
Preceded byNilde Iotti
Succeeded byGiorgio Napolitano
Ministerial offices
Minister of the Interior
In office
4 August 1983 – 28 July 1987
Prime Minister
Preceded byVirginio Rognoni
Succeeded byAmintore Fanfani
Minister of Public Education
In office
26 July 1972 – 7 July 1973
Prime MinisterGiulio Andreotti
Preceded byRiccardo Misasi
Succeeded byFranco Maria Malfatti
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
In office
12 February 1972 – 26 July 1972
Prime MinisterGiulio Andreotti
Preceded byItalo Viglianesi
Succeeded byAldo Bozzi
In office
23 February 1966 – 12 December 1968
Prime Minister
Preceded byAngelo Raffaele Jervolino
Succeeded byLuigi Mariotti
Secretary of the Council of Ministers
In office
10 February 1954 – 6 July 1955
Prime MinisterMario Scelba
Preceded byMariano Rumor
Succeeded byCarlo Russa
Parliamentary offices
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Life tenure
16 May 1999 – 29 January 2012
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
8 May 1948 – 25 May 1992
ConstituencyTurin–Novara–Vercelli
Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office
25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948
ConstituencyTurin
Personal details
Born(1918-09-09)9 September 1918
Novara, Kingdom of Italy
Died29 January 2012(2012-01-29) (aged 93)
Rome, Italy
Political party
Spouse
Maria Inzitari
(m. 1943; died 1944)
Children1
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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɔskar luˈiːdʒi ˈskalfaro]; 9 September 1918 – 29 January 2012)[1] was the president of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician after the DC's dissolution in 1992, and was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007.