Brunetto Bucciarelli-Ducci (18 June 1914 – 4 February 1994) was an Italian politician and magistrate. His name appears in the list of members of the P2 lodge found in Castiglion Fibocchi on 17 March 1981.

Biography

Bucciarelli-Ducci was born in

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. He graduated in law at the University of Florence in 1937. Subsequently he passed the competition for judicial auditor in 1940 and entered the judiciary. During the

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he was called to arms as an artillery officer and subsequently served at the military tribunal of Bari, where he met

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, then an airman assigned to the same tribunal, to whom he was always bound by a deep friendship. At the end of the war period he resumed his career as a magistrate as investigating judge at the Arezzo court. In 1948 he was elected Deputy in the Siena-Arezzo-Grosseto constituency and reconfirmed continuously until the 6th parliamentary term, among the ranks of the

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. In 1953 he became vice-chairman of the Christian Democratic group in the Chamber, led by

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. On 12 June 1958 he was elected Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies and was also confirmed in the subsequent parliamentary term. Following the appointment of President of Chamber

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, in the session of 26 June 1963 Bucciarelli-Ducci was elected President of the assembly with a wide parliamentary consensus. On 27 January 1977 he was elected judge of the

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by Parliament in joint session, together with

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and

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. He held the position until 31 January 1986. He died in

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on 4 February 1994 of a

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Honours and awards

* : Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (5 July 1976)BUCCIARELLI DUCCI On.Dr. Brunetto Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
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References

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