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Fortunato Calcagno

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Fortunato Calcagno
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
8 May 1948 – 25 June 1953
ConstituencySicily (Catania)
Personal details
Born(1900-07-09)9 July 1900
Ramacca, Italy
Died31 March 1966(1966-03-31) (aged 65)
Catania, Italy
Political partyChristian Democracy
Alma materUniversity of Catania
ProfessionLawyer

Fortunato Calcagno (9 July 1900 - 31 March 1966) was an Italian lawyer, politician and officer.

Biography

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He was born in Ramacca in 1900; he graduated in law from the University of Catania. Elected in the first legislature, he represented Christian Democracy party in the Chamber of Deputies;[1] he was mayor of Ramacca, president of the Sicilian Editorial[2] and director of the Sicilian Electricity Authority.[3] In October 1950, a consortium of entrepreneurs headed by The Hon. Calcagno took over the Corriere di Sicilia, a newspaper founded in 1943 by the anti-fascist journalist Giuseppe Longhitano and the former mayor of Catania Carlo Ardizzoni.

References

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  1. ^ "Fortunato Calcagno". storia.camera.it.
  2. ^ Grandinetti, Mario (1992). I quotidiani in Italia, 1943-1991 (in Italian) – via F. Angeli.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Di Fazio, Giuseppe; Farkas, Giuseppe (2005). Un giornale, un'isola: "La Sicilia" di Domenico Sanfilippo, Alfio Russo e Antonio Prestinenza, 1945-1967 (in Italian). S. Sciascia. ISBN 978-88-8241-203-6.