Benedetto Majorana della Nicchiara (18 August 1899 – 22 November 1982) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Son of Don Giuseppe Majorana, baron of Nicchiara and Donna Fernanda Paternò Castello of the

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, he was baptized as ''Benedetto Francesco di Paola Michele Maria Agatino''; he was an exponent of the baronial branch of the

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: a family of the landed aristocracy. He married his first cousin Donna Ilaria Maria Paternò Castello di Carcaci from which he two sons: Giuseppe and Ferdinando. He was president of the Provincial Farmers Association of

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, and in 1947 he became mayor of

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with the support of the

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. In April 1947 he was a candidate for the first regional elections in Sicily and in 1951 he took over in the first Sicilian Regional Assembly, where he had stood. Re-elected to the renewal of the ARS in 1952, still in the constituency of Catania, he joined the group of the Monarchist National Party, of which he was a member of the National Council. In 1955 he was confirmed with the PNM and was elected vice president of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. He joined the transversal majority which led

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to the presidency of the Region. In the 1959 elections he ran for the

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and was elected in the Catania constituency. In the following two governments of Milazzo he was vice president of the region and assessor for finance. The

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, at that moment in the opposition, focused on him to overturn the majority and nominated him for the presidency of the Region. He was elected

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on 23 February 1960 and his government lasted until 29 June 1961.Scheda deputato
sul sito dell'

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. Disappointed by the attitude of the Christian Democrat leaders, he also resigned early as a deputy on 22 February 1963, joining the

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. He was not re-elected and became national councilor of Confagricoltura. In 1972 he was elected Senator in the Sicily district among the ranks of the

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and was a member of the agriculture commission until 1976.

References

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