Cesare Merzagora (9 November 1898 – 1 May 1991) was an

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politician from

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Biography

Merzagora was born in

on November 9, 1898. Between 1947 and 1949 Merzagora would serve as Italy's Minister of Foreign Trade. He was President of

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from 1950 to 1952,

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of the

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from 1953 to 1967, and was also temporarily acting head of State, in the period between the resignation of

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and the election of

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in 1964. Merzagora was named

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in March of 1963. He was run as a candidate of the Italian Christian Democracy Party, and was affiliated to this party for most of his whole political career and then as an

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. He died in

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on 1 May 1991.

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