Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Prime Minister of Italy
In office 30 October 1917 – 23 June 1919
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded by	Paolo Boselli
Succeeded by	Francesco Saverio Nitti
Minister of the Interior
In office 18 June 1916 – 23 June 1919
Prime Minister	Paolo Boselli Himself
Preceded by	Antonio Salandra
Succeeded by	Francesco Saverio Nitti
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 15 July 1944 – 25 July 1946
Monarchs	Victor Emmanuel III Umberto II
Preceded by	Dino Grandi
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Saragat
In office 1 December 1919 – 25 June 1920
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded by	Giuseppe Marcora
Succeeded by	Enrico De Nicola
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office 8 May 1948 – 1 December 1952 (Ex officio)[1]
Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office 25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948
Constituency	Italy at-large
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 5 April 1897 – 21 January 1929
Constituency	Partinico
Personal details
Born	(1860-05-19)19 May 1860 Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died	1 December 1952(1952-12-01) (aged 92) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Historical Left (1897–1913) Liberal Union (1913–1919) Democratic Liberal Party (1919–1926) Italian Liberal Party (1926–1952)
Alma mater	University of Palermo
Profession	Jurist, teacher, politician

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (19 May 1860 – 1 December 1952) was an Italian statesman, who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from October 1917 to June 1919. Orlando is best known for representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. He was also known as "Premier of Victory" for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I.^[2] He was also the provisional President of the Chamber of Deputies between 1943 and 1945, and a member of the Constituent Assembly that changed the Italian form of government into a republic. Aside from his prominent political role, Orlando was a professor of law and is known for his writings on legal and judicial issues, which number over a hundred works.^[3]