Giuseppe Codacci Pisanelli (28 March 1913 – 8 February 1988) was an Italian

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politician.

Biography

Giuseppe Codacci Pisanelli was the son of Alfredo Codacci Pisanelli, a law professor at the University of Rome, a liberal, undersecretary and deputy of the Kingdom, and grandson of

Giuseppe Pisanelli Giuseppe Pisanelli (Tricase, 23 September 1812 – Naples, 5 April 1879) was an Italian jurist and politician. Early life He was born in Tricase to Michelangelo Pisanelli and Angela Mellone. In 1830 he moved to Naples, where he studied law at th ...

, a jurist and Minister of Grace and Justice of the Kingdom of Italy. He graduated in law and in political science and became a free lecturer in Administrative Law in 1940 at the

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, Captain of the cavalry during the

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and in 1943, entered the judiciary, was an auditor at the court of Rome and praetor of

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. In 1944 he entered as a volunteer in the Italian Co-belligerent Army and was sent as an observer for Italy at the

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. In 1946 he returned to teaching at the University of Rome and in 1953 at the

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. He was rector of the Salento University Consortium from 1955 to 1976, and remained director of the Institute of Legal and Economic Sciences. In 1946 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly for Christian Democracy in the Lecce constituency. He was deputy several times from the I to the IV legislature (1948–1968). He was briefly Minister of defence in the 8th De Gasperi cabinet (1953). In 1954 he became provincial secretary of the DC of Lecce and commissioner of that of Bari. From 1958 to 1960 he was vice-president of the foreign commission of the Chamber of Deputies. Then he served as Minister for relations with the Parliament in the Fanfani III and IV (July 1960 – June 1963) and Leone (June – December 1963) governments. He was, from 1962 to 1968, mayor of Tricase, in Salento, from which his family came. Not re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1968, he was again re-elected in the 6th legislature (1972–1976). In 1979 he was a candidate for the Christian Democracy in the European elections for Southern Italy and was the first of the non-elected. He died on 3 February 1988 after an intestinal haemorrhage.E' MORTO GIUSEPPE CODACCI PISANELLI FU MINISTRO CON DE GASPERI E FANFANI
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Codacci Pisanelli, Giuseppe 1913 births 1988 deaths Politicians from Rome Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Italian Ministers of Defence Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy Deputies of Legislature I of Italy Deputies of Legislature II of Italy Deputies of Legislature III of Italy Deputies of Legislature IV of Italy Deputies of Legislature VI of Italy Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany