Paolino Taddei (22 January 1860 – 15 October 1925) was an Italian politician and the last minister of Interior before the

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Life

Born in

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near

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in 1911 he was named Prefetto of the

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where he worked as mediator in the contention between the local

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and the entrepreneurs, then he was named prefetto of

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and

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. On 1921 he was named as Senator of the Kingdom by king

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.official Italian Senate webpage about Taddei
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. In the night between 27 October and 28 October 1922 he joined the decision to declare the State of Siege against the fascists, but the king refused to sign the order and Taddei resigned from his post like the whole Cabinet. He died in Florence in 1925.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taddei, Paolino 1860 births 1925 deaths Italian Ministers of the Interior People from the Province of Florence Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy