Cesare Merzagora

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Senator for Life

| name = Cesare Merzagora

| image = Cesare Merzagora.jpg

| order = President of the Italian Senate

| term_start = 25 June 1953

| term_end = 7 November 1967

| predecessor = Meuccio Ruini

| successor = Ennio Zelioli-Lanzini

| order1 = Acting President of Italy

| term_start1 = 6 December 1964

| term_end1 = 29 December 1964

| primeminister1 = Aldo Moro

| predecessor1 = Antonio Segni

| successor1 = Giuseppe Saragat

| order3 = Minister of Foreign Trade

| primeminister3 = Alcide De Gasperi

| term_start3 = 1 June 1947

| term_end3 = 1 April 1949

| predecessor3 = Ezio Vanoni

| successor3 = Giovanni Battista Bertone

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1898|11|9}}

| birth_place = Milan, Kingdom of Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1991|5|1|1898|11|9}}

| death_place = Rome, Italian Republic

| nationality = Italian

| party = Christian Democracy
(1948–1963)
Independent
(1963–1972; 1976–1991)
Italian Liberal Party
(1972–1976)

| spouse =

| occupation = Banker, manager, politician

}}

Cesare Merzagora ({{IPA|it|ˈtʃeːzare merˈdzaːɡora, ˈtʃɛː-}}; 9 November 1898 – 1 May 1991) was an Italian politician from Milan.

Biography

Merzagora was born in Milan on 9 November 1898.{{Cite web|title=senato.it - Scheda di attività di Cesare MERZAGORA - X Legislatura|url=http://www.senato.it/leg/10/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00001573.htm|access-date=2020-10-20|website=www.senato.it|publisher=Italian Senate}}{{Cite book|last=Rizzo|first=Tito Lucrezio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Uoxr2NtY8oC&q=%22Cesare+Merzagora%22&pg=PA89|title=Parla il Capo dello Stato: sessanta anni di vita repubblicana attraverso il Quirinale 1946-2006|date=2012-10-23|publisher=Gangemi Editore spa|isbn=978-88-492-7460-8|language=it}}

Between 1947 and 1949, Merzagora served as Italy's Minister of Foreign Trade.{{Cite book|last=Mazzanti|first=Davide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBKe9AClVc0C&q=%22Cesare+Merzagora%22&pg=PP100|title=Vespa: Italian Style for the World|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2005|isbn=978-88-09-04337-4|language=en}} He was President of Banca Popolare di Milano from 1950 to 1952, President of the Italian Senate from 1953 to 1967,Cfr. Berardi, Silvio (2021), Cesare Merzagora. Un liberale europeista tra difesa dello Stato e anti-partitocrazia, Milano, Luni Editrice. ISBN 887984735X and was also temporarily acting head of State, in the period between the resignation of Antonio Segni and the election of Giuseppe Saragat in 1964.{{cite web|title=Articolo tratto dal sito del Corriere della Sera – "La grande battaglia dei soci per l' ultima banca tutta milanese" 17 aprile 2009|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/aprile/17/grande_battaglia_dei_soci_per_co_9_090417014.shtml|access-date=7 March 2012|website=Corriere della Sera}}{{Cite book|last=State|first=United States Department of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72VHAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Cesare+Merzagora%22&pg=PA891|title=Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers|date=1988|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Agency|first=United States Central Intelligence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gZj0L4ucocC&q=%22Cesare+Merzagora%22|title=Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts|date=1963|language=en}} Merzagora was named senator for life in March of 1963.

He ran as a candidate of the Italian Christian Democracy Party, and was affiliated with this party for most of his whole political career and then as an independent politician.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzMbAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Cesare+Merzagora%22|title=Italy; Documents and Notes|date=1972|publisher=Centro di documentazione.|language=en}}

He died in Rome on 1 May 1991.