List of presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)

President of the
Chamber of Deputies
President of the; Chamber of Deputies
Presidente della Camera dei deputati
	Incumbent; Roberto Fico; since 24 March 2018
Style	President
Appointer	Chamber of Deputies
Term length	Length of the legislature
Inaugural holder	Urbano Rattazzi
Formation	17 March 1861
Website	www.camera.it

This is a list of the Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy from the Kingdom of Sardinia to present. The President is the presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies and also serves as presiding officer of joint sessions of the Italian Parliament, when the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate vote together.

The President is the speaker of the lower house of the Italian Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies. It is the third highest-ranking office of the Republic of Italy, after the President of the Republic and the President of the Senate. Since 24 March 2018, the role has been held by Roberto Fico, who was elected on the fourth vote with an absolute majority of the voting members.

Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1860)

Parties

Moderate Independent

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Political Party	Legislature
President of the Chamber of Deputies
style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	Vincenzo Gioberti (1801–1852)	8 May 1848	30 December 1848	236 days	Moderate Party	I (1848)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" \|	Lorenzo Pareto (1800–1865)	1 February 1849	20 November 1849	261 days	Independent	II (Jan 1849)
III (Jul 1849)	Lorenzo Pareto (1800–1865)	1 February 1849	20 November 1849	261 days	Independent
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" \|	Dionigi Pinelli (1805–1852)	20 December 1849	22 April 1852	2 years, 124 days	Independent	IV (Dec 1849)
style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	Urbano Rattazzi (1805–1852)	11 May 1852	27 October 1853	1 year, 169 days	Moderate Party	IV (Dec 1849)
style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	Carlo Bon Compagni di Mobello (1804–1880)	16 November 1853	16 June 1856	2 years, 213 days	Moderate Party	V (1853)
style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	Carlo Cadorna (1809–1891)	7 January 1857	16 July 1857	190 days	Moderate Party	V (1853)
style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	Carlo Bon Compagni di Mombello (1804–1880)	14 December 1857	14 July 1858	212 days	Moderate Party	VI (1857)
style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	Urbano Rattazzi (1805–1852)	20 January 1859	21 January 1860	1 year, 1 day	Moderate Party	VI (1857)
style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	Giovanni Lanza (1810–1882)	2 April 1860	17 December 1860	259 days	Moderate Party	VII (1860)

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

Parties

1861–1912:

Historical Right Historical Left

1912–1922:

Radical Party Democratic Liberal Party Liberal Party

1922–1943:

National Fascist Party (sole legal party)

1943–1946:

Liberal Party Republican Party

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Political Party	Legislature
President of the Chamber of Deputies
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Urbano Rattazzi (1805–1852)	18 February 1861	3 March 1862	1 year, 44 days	Historical Left	VIII (1861)
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Sebastiano Tecchio (1807–1886)	22 March 1862	21 May 1863	1 year, 60 days	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giovanni Battista Cassinis (1806–1866)	21 May 1863	7 September 1865	2 years, 109 days	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Adriano Mari (1813–1887)	18 November 1865	27 October 1867	1 year, 343 days	Historical Right	IX (1865)
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giovanni Lanza (1810–1882)	16 December 1867	8 August 1868	236 days	Historical Right	X (1867)
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Adriano Mari (1813–1887)	25 November 1868	14 August 1869	262 days	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giovanni Lanza (1810–1882)	18 November 1869	15 December 1869	27 days	Historical Right
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	12 March 1870	3 October 1876	6 years, 205 days	Historical Right	XI (1870)
XII (1874)		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	12 March 1870	3 October 1876	6 years, 205 days	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Francesco Crispi (1818–1901)	26 November 1876	26 December 1877	1 year, 30 days	Historical Left	XIII (1876)
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Benedetto Cairoli (1825–1889)	7 March 1880	24 March 1880	17 days	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Domenico Farini (1834–1900)	27 March 1878	19 March 1880	2 years, 2 days	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Michele Coppino (1822–1901)	13 April 1880	2 May 1880	19 days	Historical Left
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Domenico Farini (1834–1900)	26 May 1880	12 March 1884	3 years, 291 days	Historical Left	XIV (1880)
XV (1882)		Domenico Farini (1834–1900)	26 May 1880	12 March 1884	3 years, 291 days	Historical Left
XV (1882)	style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Michele Coppino (1822–1901)	19 March 1884	3 April 1884	15 days	Historical Left
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	7 April 1884	27 September 1892	8 years, 173 days	Historical Right	XVI (1886)
XVII (1890)		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	7 April 1884	27 September 1892	8 years, 173 days	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Zanardelli (1826–1908)	23 November 1892	20 February 1894	1 year, 59 days	Historical Left	XVIII (1892)
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	22 February 1894	13 January 1895	325 days	Historical Right	XVIII (1892)
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Tommaso Villa (1832–1915)	10 June 1895	2 March 1897	325 days	Historical Left	XIX (1895)
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Zanardelli (1826–1908)	5 April 1897	14 December 1897	253 days	Historical Left	XX (1897)
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	26 January 1898	15 July 1898	170 days	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Zanardelli (1826–1908)	16 November 1898	25 May 1899	190 days	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Luigi Chinaglia (1841–1906)	30 May 1899	25 June 1899	26 days	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Colombo (1836–1921)	14 November 1899	17 May 1900	184 days	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Nicolò Gallo (1849–1907)	16 June 1900	25 June 1900	10 days	Historical Left	XXI (1900)
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" \|		Tommaso Villa (1832–1915)	28 June 1900	22 February 1902	1 year, 239 days	Historical Left
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	10 March 1902	18 October 1904	2 years, 222 days	Historical Right
style="background:Template:Italian Radical Party/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Marcora (1841–1927)	30 November 1904	10 March 1906	1 year, 131 days	Radical Party	XXII (1904)
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Biancheri (1821–1908)	10 March 1906	30 January 1907	326 days	Historical Right	XXII (1904)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Italian Radical Party/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Marcora (1841–1927)	2 February 1907	29 September 1919	12 years, 231 days	Radical Party	XXIII (1909)
XXIV (1913)		Giuseppe Marcora (1841–1927)	2 February 1907	29 September 1919	12 years, 231 days	Radical Party
style="background:Template:Democratic Liberal Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|		Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860–1952)	1 December 1919	25 June 1920	207 days	Democratic Liberal Party	XXV (1919)
style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;" \|		Enrico De Nicola (1877–1959)	26 June 1920	25 January 1924	3 years, 213 days	Italian Liberal Party	XXVI (1921)
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" \|		Alfredo Rocco (1875–1935)	24 May 1924	5 January 1925	226 days	National Fascist Party	XXVII (1924)
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" \|		Antonio Casertano (1863–1938)	13 January 1925	25 January 1929	4 years, 12 days	National Fascist Party	XXVII (1924)
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" \|		Giovanni Giuriati (1876–1970)	20 April 1929	19 January 1934	4 years, 274 days	National Fascist Party	XXVIII (1929)
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" \|		Costanzo Ciano (1876–1939)	28 April 1934	2 March 1939	4 years, 308 days	National Fascist Party	XXIX (1934)
President of the Chamber of Fasci and Corporations
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" \|		Costanzo Ciano (1876–1939)	23 March 1939	26 June 1939	95 days	National Fascist Party	XXX (no election)
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" \|		Dino Grandi (1895–1988)	30 November 1939	2 August 1943	3 years, 245 days	National Fascist Party	XXX (no election)
President of the Chamber of Deputies
style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;" \|		Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860–1952)	2 August 1943	25 September 1945	2 years, 54 days	Italian Liberal Party	Abolished Parliament
President of the National Council
style="background:Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color;" \|		Carlo Sforza (1872–1952)	25 September 1945	1 June 1946	103 days	Italian Republican Party	National Council

Italian Republic (1946–present)

Parties

1946–1994:

DC PSI PCI/PDS

Since 1994:

PDS/DS LN CCD/UDC PRC PdL/FLI SEL M5S

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Political Party	Legislature
President of the Constituent Assembly
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;" \|		Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988)	25 June 1946	6 February 1947	226 days	Italian Socialist Party	Constituent Assembly (1946)
style="background:Template:Italian Communist Party/meta/color;" \|		Umberto Terracini (1895–1983)	8 February 1947	31 January 1948	357 days	Italian Communist Party	Constituent Assembly (1946)
President of the Chamber of Deputies
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" \|		Giovanni Gronchi (1887–1978)	8 May 1948	29 April 1955	6 years, 356 days	Christian Democracy	I (1948)
II (1953)		Giovanni Gronchi (1887–1978)	8 May 1948	29 April 1955	6 years, 356 days	Christian Democracy
II (1953)	rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" \|		Giovanni Leone (1908–2001)	10 May 1955	21 June 1963	8 years, 42 days	Christian Democracy
III (1958)
IV (1963)
IV (1963)	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" \|		Brunetto Bucciarelli-Ducci (1914–1994)	26 June 1963	4 June 1968	4 years, 344 days	Christian Democracy
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;" \|		Sandro Pertini (1896–1990)	5 June 1968	4 July 1976	8 years, 29 days	Italian Socialist Party	V (1968)
VI (1972)		Sandro Pertini (1896–1990)	5 June 1968	4 July 1976	8 years, 29 days	Italian Socialist Party
style="background:Template:Italian Communist Party/meta/color;" \|		Pietro Ingrao (1915–2015)	5 July 1976	19 June 1979	2 years, 349 days	Italian Communist Party	VII (1976)
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Italian Communist Party/meta/color;" \|		Nilde Iotti (1920–1999)	29 June 1979	22 April 1992	12 years, 298 days	Italian Communist Party	VIII (1979)
IX (1983)						Italian Communist Party
Democratic Party of the Left						X (1987)
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" \|		Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (1918–2012)	24 April 1992	25 May 1992	31 days	Christian Democracy	XI (1992)
style="background:Template:Democratic Party of the Left/meta/color;" \|		Giorgio Napolitano (1925– )	3 June 1992	14 April 1994	1 year, 315 days	Democratic Party of the Left	XI (1992)
style="background:Template:Lega Nord/meta/color;" \|		Irene Pivetti (1963– )	16 April 1994	8 May 1996	2 years, 22 days	Lega Nord	XII (1994)
style="background:Template:Democrats of the Left/meta/color;" \|		Luciano Violante (1941– )	10 May 1996	29 May 2001	5 years, 19 days	Democratic Party of the Left / Democrats of the Left	XIII (1996)
style="background:Template:Union of the Centre (2008)/meta/color;" \|		Pier Ferdinando Casini (1955– )	31 May 2001	27 April 2006	4 years, 331 days	Christian Democratic Centre / Union of Christian and Centre Democrats	XIV (2001)
style="background:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color;" \|		Fausto Bertinotti (1940– )	29 April 2006	28 April 2008	1 year, 365 days	Communist Refoundation Party	XV (2006)
style="background:Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color;" \|		Gianfranco Fini (1952– )	30 April 2008	15 March 2013	4 years, 319 days	The People of Freedom / Future and Freedom	XVI (2008)
style="background:Template:Left Ecology Freedom/meta/color;" \|		Laura Boldrini (1961– )	16 March 2013	23 March 2018	5 years, 7 days	Left Ecology Freedom / Free and Equal	XVII (2013)
style="background:Template:Five Star Movement/meta/color;" \|		Roberto Fico (1974– )	24 March 2018	Incumbent	6 years, 109 days	Five Star Movement	XVIII (2018)

v t e Presidents of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
Kingdom of Sardinia	Gioberti Pareto Pinelli Rattazzi Bon Compagni Cadorna Bon Compagni Rattazzi Lanza
Kingdom of Italy	Rattazzi Tecchio Cassinis Mari Lanza Biancheri Crispi Cairoli Farini Coppino Farini Coppino Biancheri Zanardelli Biancheri Villa Zanardelli Biancheri Zanardelli Chinaglia Colombo Gallo Villa Biancheri Marcora Biancheri Marcora Orlando De Nicola Rocco Casertano Giurati Ciano Grandi Orlando (de jure) Sforza (N.C.)
Italian Republic	Saragat (C.A.) Terracini (C.A.) Gronchi Leone Bucciarelli-Ducci Pertini Ingrao Iotti Scalfaro Napolitano Pivetti Violante Casini Bertinotti Fini Boldrini Fico Fontana

List of presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)

Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1860)

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

Italian Republic (1946–present)

Timeline

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

Italian Republic (1946–present)

See also