Lelio Lagorio

Lelio Lagorio
Lelio Lagorio
Mayor of Florence
	In office; 15 February 1965 – 19 November 1965
Preceded by	Giorgio La Pira
Succeeded by	Piero Bargellini
President of Tuscany
	In office; 28 July 1970 – 26 September 1978
Preceded by	Established office
Succeeded by	Mario Leone
Minister of Defence
	In office; 4 April 1980 – 4 August 1983
Preceded by	Adolfo Sarti
Succeeded by	Giovanni Spadolini
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 20 June 1979 – 22 April 1992
Member of the European Parliament
	In office; 26 July 1989 – 18 July 1994
Personal details
Born	9 November 1925; Trieste, Italy
Died	6 January 2017 (aged 91); Florence, Italy
Political party	Italian Socialist Party

Lelio Lagorio (9 November 1925 – 6 January 2017) was an Italian politician who served as the first President of Tuscany from 1970 until 1978.

Biography

Lagorio was born in Trieste and was a member of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI). He was mayor of Florence from 1964 to 1965, succeeding Giorgio La Pira, and, later, the first president of the Tuscany region (1970–1978).

He was the first PSI politicians to become Minister of Defence in Italy (1980–1983); the Ustica Massacre occurred under his tenure. Later he was minister of Sport and Spectales (1983–1986), President of PSI's Deputies and at the European Parliament (1986–1994) and Vice-President of the Union of European Community Socialist Parties (1990–1992).

Lagorio also wrote political and historical essays (including L'Ora di Austerlitz, about his period as Minister of Defence), and edited the Florentine magazine Città & Regione.

Sources

Mola, Aldo Alessandro (1993). "Lelio Lagorio". Il Parlamento Italiano. Storia parlamentare e politica dell’Italia, Vol. XXIII. Milan.
Tajani, Antonio (1982). Il Granduca. Lagorio: un socialista Ministro della Difesa. Milan.

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