Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
	Official portrait, 1992
President of Italy
	In office; 28 May 1992 – 15 May 1999
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti; Giuliano Amato; Carlo Azeglio Ciampi; Silvio Berlusconi; Lamberto Dini; Romano Prodi; Massimo D'Alema;
Preceded by	Francesco Cossiga
Succeeded by	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
President of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 24 April 1992 – 25 May 1992
Preceded by	Nilde Iotti
Succeeded by	Giorgio Napolitano
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Minister of the Interior
	In office; 4 August 1983 – 28 July 1987
Prime Minister	Bettino Craxi; Amintore Fanfani;
Preceded by	Virginio Rognoni
Succeeded by	Amintore Fanfani
Minister of Public Education
	In office; 26 July 1972 – 7 July 1973
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by	Riccardo Misasi
Succeeded by	Franco Maria Malfatti
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
	In office; 12 February 1972 – 26 July 1972
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by	Italo Viglianesi
Succeeded by	Aldo Bozzi
	In office; 23 February 1966 – 12 December 1968
Prime Minister	Aldo Moro; Giovanni Leone;
Preceded by	Angelo Raffaele Jervolino
Succeeded by	Luigi Mariotti
Secretary of the Council of Ministers
	In office; 10 February 1954 – 6 July 1955
Prime Minister	Mario Scelba
Preceded by	Mariano Rumor
Succeeded by	Carlo Russa
Constituency
Parliamentary offices
Member of the Senate of the Republic
	Ex officio
	Life tenure; 16 May 1999 – 29 January 2012
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 8 May 1948 – 25 May 1992
Constituency	Turin–Novara–Vercelli
Member of the Constituent Assembly
	In office; 25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948
Constituency	Turin
Personal details
Born	9 September 1918; Novara, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
Died	29 January 2012 (aged 93); Rome, Lazio, Italy
Political party	DC (1946–1992); Independent (from 1992);
Spouse	Maria Inzitari (m. 1943; died 1944)
Children	1
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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (Italian: [ˈɔskar luˈiːdʒi ˈskalfaro]; 9 September 1918 – 29 January 2012) was an Italian politician who served as President of Italy from 1992 to 1999. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), he became an independent politician after the DC's dissolution in 1992, and was close to the centre-left Democratic Party when it was founded in 2007. Before his election to the Presidency, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Turin for 44 years from 1948 to 1992.