List of Italian Senate Presidents

The President of the Senate is the chairman of the Senato della Repubblica , the smaller of the two chambers of parliament of the Italian Republic .

List of Presidents of the Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1860)

photo	president	Political party	Term of office	annotation
I. legislative period
	Gaspare coller		May 3, 1848 - December 28, 1848
II legislative period
	Giuseppe Manno		February 13, 1849 - March 30, 1849
III. Legislative period
	Giuseppe Manno		July 27, 1849 - November 20, 1849	II. Term of Office
IV. Legislative period
	Giuseppe Manno		December 18, 1849 - November 19, 1850	III. Term of office
	Giuseppe Manno		November 21, 1850 - February 27, 1852	IV. Term of Office
	Giuseppe Manno		February 29, 1852 - November 21, 1853	V. Term of office
5th legislative period
	Giuseppe Manno		December 15, 1853 - June 29, 1855	VI. Term of office
	Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno	Destra storica	November 8, 1855 - June 16, 1856
	Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno	Destra storica	December 26, 1856 - July 16, 1857	II. Term of Office
VI. Legislative period
	Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno	Destra storica	December 6, 1857 - July 14, 1858	III. Term of office
	Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno	Destra storica	December 19, 1858 - January 21, 1860	IV. Term of Office
VII legislative period
	Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno	Destra storica	March 27, 1860 - December 17, 1860	V. Term of office

List of Presidents of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1943)

photo	president	Political party	Term of office	annotation
VIII legislative period
	Ruggero Settimo		February 18, 1861 - May 2, 1863	died during the tenure
	Federigo Sclopis di Salerano		May 24, 1863 - October 13, 1864
	Giuseppe Manno		October 13, 1864 - September 7, 1865	V. Term of office
IX. Legislative period
	Gabrio Casati		November 8, 1865 - February 13, 1867
Xth legislative period
	Gabrio Casati		March 21, 1867 - November 2, 1870	II. Term of Office
XI. Legislative period
	Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa		December 1, 1870 - September 20, 1874
XII. Legislative period
	Luigi des Ambrois de Nevache		November 15, 1874 - December 3, 1874	died during the tenure
	Giuseppe Pasolini	Destra storica	February 28, 1876 - October 3, 1876
XIII. Legislative period
	Sebastiano Tecchio		November 14, 1876 - May 2, 1880
XIV. Legislative period
	Sebastiano Tecchio		May 26, 1880 - October 2, 1882
XV. Legislative period
	Sebastiano Tecchio		November 22, 1882 - July 27, 1884	III. Term of office
	Giacomo Durando		November 23, 1884 - April 27, 1886
XVI. Legislative period
	Giacomo Durando		June 6, 1886 - September 4, 1887	II. Term of Office
	Domenico Farini	Destra storica	November 13, 1887 - August 3, 1890
XVII. Legislative period
	Domenico Farini	Destra storica	December 7, 1890 - September 27, 1892	II. Term of Office
XVIII. Legislative period
	Domenico Farini	Destra storica	November 20, 1892 - January 13, 1895	III. Term of office
XIX. Legislative period
	Domenico Farini	Destra storica	June 2, 1895 - July 16, 1857	IV. Term of Office
XX. Legislative period
	Domenico Farini	Destra storica	April 1, 1897 - July 15, 1898	V. Term of office
	Giuseppe Saracco	Sinistra storica	November 10, 1898 - May 17, 1900
XXI. Legislative period
	Giuseppe Saracco	Sinistra storica	June 10, 1900 - October 18, 1904	II. Term of Office
XXII. Legislative period
	Tancredi Canonico	Sinistra storica	November 27, 1904 - March 20, 1908
	Giuseppe Manfredi	Destra storica Unione Liberale	March 20, 1908 - February 8, 1909
XXIII. Legislative period
	Giuseppe Manfredi	Destra storica Unione Liberale	March 21, 1909 - September 29, 1913	II. Term of Office
XXIV legislative period
	Giuseppe Manfredi	Destra storica Unione Liberale	November 24, 1913 - November 6, 1918	during the III. Term of office died
	Adeodato Bonasi	Unione Liberale	November 18, 1918 - September 29, 1919
XXV. Legislative period
	Tommaso Tittoni	Unione Liberale Partito Liberale Italiano	December 4, 1919 - April 7, 1921
XXVI. Legislative period
	Tommaso Tittoni	Unione Liberale Partito Liberale Italiano	June 14, 1921 - December 10, 1923	II. Term of Office
XXVII. Legislative period
	Tommaso Tittoni	Unione Liberale Partito Liberale Italiano	May 31, 1924 - January 21, 1929	III. Term of office
XXVIII. Legislative period
	Luigi Federzoni	National Fascist Party	April 29, 1929 - January 19, 1934
XXIX. Legislative period
	Luigi Federzoni	National Fascist Party	April 24, 1934 - March 2, 1939	II. Term of Office
XXX. Legislative period
	Giacomo Suardo	National Fascist Party	March 15, 1939 - July 28, 1943

List of presidents of the constitutional transition period (1943–1946)

photo	president	Political party	Term of office	annotation
	Paolo Thaon di Revel		July 28, 1943 - August 5, 1943 August 6, 1943 - July 20, 1944
	Pietro Tomasi Della Torretta		July 20, 1944 - June 25, 1946

List of Presidents of the Senate of the Republic of Italy (from 1948)

photo	president	Political party	Term of office	annotation
I. legislative period
	Ivanoe Bonomi	Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano	May 8, 1948 - April 20, 1951	died during the tenure
	Enrico De Nicola	Partito Liberale Italiano	April 28, 1951 - June 24, 1952
	Giuseppe Paratore	Partito Liberale Italiano	June 26, 1952 - March 24, 1953
	Meuccio Ruini	independent	March 25, 1953 - June 24, 1953
II legislative period
	Cesare Merzagora	independent	June 25, 1953 - June 11, 1958
III. Legislative period
	Cesare Merzagora	independent	June 12, 1958 - May 15, 1963	II. Term of Office
IV. Legislative period
	Cesare Merzagora	independent	May 16, 1963 - November 7, 1967	III. Term of office
	Ennio Zelioli-Lanzini	Democrazia Cristiana	Nov. 8, 1967 - June 4, 1968
5th legislative period
	Amintore Fanfani	Democrazia Cristiana	June 5, 1968 - May 21, 1972
VI. Legislative period
	Amintore Fanfani	Democrazia Cristiana	May 24, 1972 - June 23, 1973	II. Term of Office
	Giovanni Spagnolli	Democrazia Cristiana	June 27, 1973 - July 4, 1976
VII legislative period
	Amintore Fanfani	Democrazia Cristiana	July 5, 1976 - June 18, 1979	III. Term of office
VIII legislative period
	Amintore Fanfani	Democrazia Cristiana	June 20, 1979 - December 1, 1982	IV. Term of Office
	Tommaso Morlino	Democrazia Cristiana	December 9, 1982 - May 6, 1983	died during the tenure
	Vittorino Colombo	Democrazia Cristiana	May 12, 1983 - July 11, 1983
IX. Legislative period
	Francesco Cossiga	Democrazia Cristiana	July 12, 1983 - June 24, 1985
	Amintore Fanfani	Democrazia Cristiana	July 9, 1985 - April 17, 1987	V. Term of office
	Giovanni Malagodi	Partito Liberale Italiano	April 22, 1987 - July 1, 1987
Xth legislative period
	Giovanni Spadolini	Democrazia Cristiana	July 2, 1987 - April 22, 1992
XI. Legislative period
	Giovanni Spadolini	Democrazia Cristiana	July 24, 1992 - April 14, 1994	II. Term of Office
XII. Legislative period
	Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini	Forza Italia	April 16, 1994 - May 8, 1996
XIII. Legislative period
	Nicola Mancino	Partito Popolare Italiano	May 9, 1996 - May 29, 2001
XIV. Legislative period
	Marcello Pera	Forza Italia	May 30, 2001 - April 27, 2006
XV. Legislative period
	Franco Marini	La Margherita Partito Democratico	April 29, 2006 - April 28, 2008
XVI. Legislative period
	Renato Schifani	Forza Italia Il Popolo della Libertà	April 29, 2008 - March 14, 2013
XVII. Legislative period
	Pietro Grasso	Partito Democratico	March 16, 2013 - March 22, 2018
XVIII. Legislative period
	Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati	Forza Italia	March 24, 2018 - in office

Web links

• The Senate Presidents of the Republic of Italy since 1948 (Senate homepage) (Italian)
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