Giangiacomo Borghese (25 July 1889 – 28 September 1954) was an

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politician who at the height of his career served as the 6th fascist governor of Rome (1939–1944). Giangiacomo Borghese was born in

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, the son of ''Prince'' Giuseppe

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, Duke of Poggio Nativo (1859-1942) and ''Marchioness'' Maria-Concetta Covoni Girolami (1865-1948), of whom the former belonged to the Roman nobility and the latter to the Florentine nobility. He graduated in engineering from the

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and later participated in the First World War as a lieutenant and later captain of the Engineers, receiving a medal for military valour. After the war, Borghese joined the

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. On 7 January 1922, he married ''Donna'' Sofia Lanza Branciforte dei principi di Trabia, from 1927 ''

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'' 13th Princess of Leonforte, with whom he had a son, Alessandro Romano Borghese, 14th Prince of Leonforte (1924-1994), whose own son Fabio Borghese (b. 1965) is the 15th and current Prince of Leonforte. At the end of the war, Giangiacomo Borghese retired to

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, where he died in 1954.

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1889 births 1954 deaths People from Lastra a Signa 20th-century Italian politicians Mayors of Rome House of Borghese {{Italy-mayor-stub