Carlo Conti (politician, 1836)

Carlo Antonio Conti (born April 22, 1836 in Lugano ; † February 28, 1900 there ) was a Swiss lawyer , politician , judge , publicist , Ticino Grand Councilor and State Councilor of the Conservative Party (CVP).

Life

Carlo Antonio Conti was born to Giovanni Battista Conti of Lugano and Francesca della Torre. After secondary school in the Collegio Papio of Ascona and with the Jesuits in Massa Carrara and Rome , he received his doctorate in law at the University of Pisa ; then he practiced as a lawyer and notary in Massimiliano Magatti's office in Lugano.

In 1857 he tried together with Leone de Stoppani to merge the conservative with the liberal party by means of the Riforma . For ten years he was editor of the Credente Cattolico ; from 1857 to 1875 editor of Libertà , the organ of the conservative party. He was one of the founders of the Pius Society . In 1873 he was appointed examining magistrate and in 1877 secretary of the Interior Department of the Canton of Ticino.

From 1878 to 1884 he was a member of the State Council (President 1880) under the direction of the Military, Interior and Justice Departments. Public prosecutor from 1884–1894, then resumed attorney practice. After 1890 he joined the Unione democratica ticinese party.

literature

• Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 18.
• Fabrizio Panzera: Carlo Conti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 30, 2005. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
• Obituary. In: Corriere del Ticino , February 28, 1900.
• Obituary. In: La Libertà , February 28, 1900; March 1, 1900.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Carlo Conti. Digitized In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2, Cavadini - Daegerlen, Attinger Verlag, Neuenburg 1924, p. 618, (accessed on October 6, 2017).