List of presidents of the Senate of the Republic (Italy)

President of the Senate of the Republic
Presidente del Senato della Repubblica
Incumbent Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati since 24 March 2018
Style	President
Appointer	Senate of the Republic
Term length	Length of the legislature
Inaugural holder	Ruggero Settimo
Formation	17 March 1861
Website	www.senato.it

This is a list of the Presidents of the Senate of Italy from the Kingdom of Sardinia to the present day.

The President of the Senate of the Republic is the presiding officer of the Italian Senate. The President of the Senate is the second-highest ranking office of the Italian Republic (after the President of the Republic).

The President of the Senate represents the Senate to external bodies, regulates debates in the Senate chamber by applying its regulations and the rules of the Italian Constitution, and regulates all the activities of its components in order to ensure that it functions correctly.

The President of the Senate, along with the President of the Chamber of Deputies, must be consulted by the President of the Republic before the latter can dissolve one or both the chambers of the Italian Parliament.

Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1861)

Parties

  Independent   Moderate Party

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Political Party	Legislature
President of the Senate of the Kingdom
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color;" |		Gaspare Coller (1776–1855)	3 May 1848	30 December 1848	241 days	Independent	I (1848)
rowspan=4 style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Giuseppe Manno (1786–1868)	13 February 1849	29 May 1855	6 years, 105 days	Moderate Party	II (Jan 1849)
III (Jul 1849)
IV (Dec 1849)
V (1853)
	rowspan=4 style="background:Template:Moderate Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno (1799–1869)	8 November 1855	28 December 1860	5 years, 50 days	Moderate Party
VI (1857)
VII (1860)

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

Parties

• 1861–1912:

  Historical Right   Historical Left   Independent

• 1912–1922:

  Liberal Union   Liberal Party

• 1922–1943:

  National Fascist Party (sole legal party)

• 1943–1946:

  Independent

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Political Party	Legislature
President of the Senate of the Kingdom
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color;" |		Ruggero Settimo (1778–1863)	18 February 1861	2 May 1863	2 years, 73 days	Independent	VIII (1861)
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color;" |		Federico Sclopis (1798–1888)	24 May 1863	13 October 1864	142 days	Independent
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |		Giuseppe Manno (1786–1868)	15 October 1864	7 September 1865	327 days	Historical Right
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |		Gabrio Casati (1798–1873)	8 November 1865	2 November 1870	4 years, 359 days	Historical Right	IX (1865)
X (1867)
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |		Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa (1808–1889)	5 December 1870	20 September 1874	3 years, 289 days	Historical Right	XI (1870)
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color;" |		Luigi Des Ambrois (1807–1884)	15 November 1874	3 December 1874	18 days	Independent	XII (1874)
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |		Giuseppe Pasolini (1815–1876)	3 December 1874	3 October 1876	1 year, 305 days	Historical Right
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |		Sebastiano Tecchio (1807–1886)	20 November 1876	27 July 1884	7 years, 250 days	Historical Left	XIII (1876)
XIV (1880)
XV (1882)
	rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color;" |		Giacomo Durando (1807–1894)	23 November 1884	4 September 1887	2 years, 285 days	Historical Right
XVI (1886)
	rowspan=5 style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |		Domenico Farini (1834–1900)	16 November 1887	15 July 1898	10 years, 241 days	Historical Left
XVII (1890)
XVIII (1892)
XIX (1895)
XX (1897)
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |		Giuseppe Saracco (1821–1907)	10 November 1898	18 October 1904	5 years, 343 days	Historical Left	XXI (1900)
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color;" |		Tancredi Canonico (1838–1908)	30 November 1904	20 March 1908	5 years, 343 days	Historical Left	XXII (1904)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Giuseppe Manfredi (1828–1918)	20 March 1908	6 November 1918	10 years, 231 days	Liberal Union	XXIII (1909)
XXIV (1913)
	style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Adeodato Bonasi (1838–1920)	18 November 1918	29 September 1919	315 days	Liberal Union
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Tommaso Tittoni (1855–1931)	1 December 1919	21 January 1929	9 years, 51 days	Liberal Union/ Italian Liberal Party	XXV (1919)
XXVI (1921)
XXVII (1924)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" |		Luigi Federzoni (1878–1967)	29 April 1929	2 March 1939	9 years, 307 days	National Fascist Party	XXVIII (1929)
XXIX (1934)
style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color;" |		Giacomo Suardo (1883–1947)	15 March 1939	28 July 1943	4 years, 135 days	National Fascist Party	XXX (no election)
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color;" |		Paolo Thaon di Revel (1857–1948)	2 August 1943	20 July 1944	344 days	Independent	Abolished Parliament
style="background:Template:Independent politician/meta/color;" |		Pietro Tomasi Della Torretta (1873–1962)	20 July 1944	25 June 1946	1 year, 340 days	Independent	National Council

Italian Republic (1946–present)

Parties

• 1946–1994:

  Democratic Socialist Party   Liberal Party   Christian Democracy   Republican Party   Independent

• Since 1994:

  Union of the Centre   People's Party   Forza Italia/The People of Freedom   The Daisy/Democratic Party

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	Political Party	Legislature
style="background:Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color;" |		Ivanoe Bonomi (1873–1951)	8 May 1948	20 April 1951	2 years, 347 days	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	I (1948)
style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;" |		Enrico De Nicola (1877–1959)	28 April 1951	24 June 1952	1 year, 57 days	Italian Liberal Party
style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;" |		Giuseppe Paratore (1876–1967)	26 June 1952	24 March 1953	271 days	Italian Liberal Party
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |		Meuccio Ruini (1877–1970)	25 March 1953	25 June 1953	92 days	Independent
rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" |		Cesare Merzagora (1898–1991)	25 June 1953	7 November 1967	14 years, 135 days	Independent	II (1953)
III (1958)
IV (1963)
	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Ennio Zelioli-Lanzini (1899–1976)	8 November 1967	4 June 1968	209 days	Christian Democracy
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	5 June 1968	26 June 1973	5 years, 21 days	Christian Democracy	V (1968)
VI (1972)
	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Giovanni Spagnolli (1907–1984)	27 June 1973	4 July 1976	3 years, 7 days	Christian Democracy
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	5 July 1976	1 December 1982	6 years, 149 days	Christian Democracy	VII (1976)
VIII (1979)
	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Tommaso Morlino (1925–1983)	9 December 1982	6 May 1983	148 days	Christian Democracy
	style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Vittorino Colombo (1925–1996)	12 May 1983	11 July 1983	60 days	Christian Democracy
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Francesco Cossiga (1928–2010)	12 July 1983	24 June 1985	1 year, 347 days	Christian Democracy	IX (1983)
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)	9 July 1985	17 April 1987	1 year, 282 days	Christian Democracy
style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;" |		Giovanni Malagodi (1904–1991)	22 April 1987	1 July 1987	70 days	Italian Liberal Party
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color;" |		Giovanni Spadolini (1925–1994)	2 July 1987	14 April 1994	6 years, 286 days	Italian Republican Party	X (1987)
XI (1992)
		Carlo Scognamiglio (1944– )	16 April 1994	8 May 1996	2 years, 22 days	Union of the Centre	XII (1994)
style="background:Template:Italian People's Party (1994)/meta/color;" |		Nicola Mancino (1931– )	9 May 1996	29 May 2001	5 years, 20 days	Italian People's Party	XIII (1996)
style="background:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color;" |		Marcello Pera (1943– )	30 May 2001	27 April 2006	4 years, 331 days	Forza Italia	XIV (2001)
style="background:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Franco Marini (1933– )	29 April 2006	28 April 2008	1 year, 365 days	The Daisy/ Democratic Party	XV (2006)
style="background:Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color;" |		Renato Schifani (1950– )	29 April 2008	15 March 2013	4 years, 320 days	The People of Freedom	XVI (2008)
style="background:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" |		Pietro Grasso (1945– )	16 March 2013	23 March 2018	5 years, 7 days	Democratic Party/ Free and Equal	XVII (2013)
style="background:Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color;" |		Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati (1946– )	24 March 2018	Incumbent	6 years, 105 days	Forza Italia	XVIII (2018)

See also

• Senate (Italy)