Luigi Ferraris (6 March 1813 – 17 October 1900) was an Italian politician, who was Senator and minister in the

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Biography

He was born at

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, in

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, and graduated in law at the

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, where he subsequently worked as lawyer. A liberal in politics, in 1847 signed a protest manifesto against the brutal suppression of a riot in 1847 asking reforms to king

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. He was elected in the Piedmontese parliament (the Parlamento Subalpino) in 1848, defeating future prime minister

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. He was re-elected in 1863 and in the following legislatures, and later he became Senator of Italy (1871). In 1848 he was a supporter of the

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, while in 1864, after the

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, he opposed to the transferring of the capital from

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. Subsequently, he worked in favour of Rome, conquered only in 1870, as the capital of the new country. In 1867 he became vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies and, during the III Menabrea cabinet, minister of the Interior (1869). Ferraris was

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from January 1878 to October 1882 and held for a long period the position of provincial president. He was again Minister, this time of Justice, in the first Starabba cabinet (1891). He died in Turin in 1900. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferraris, Luigi 1813 births 1900 deaths People from the Province of Biella Italian Ministers of the Interior Italian Ministers of Justice Mayors of Turin