| Honorific-Prefix: | Senator for Life |
| Cesare Merzagora | |
| Order: | President of the Italian Senate |
| Term Start: | 25 June 1953 |
| Term End: | 7 November 1967 |
| Predecessor: | Meuccio Ruini |
| Successor: | Ennio Zelioli-Lanzini |
| Order1: | Acting President of Italy |
| Term Start1: | 6 December 1964 |
| Term End1: | 29 December 1964 |
| Primeminister1: | Aldo Moro |
| Predecessor1: | Antonio Segni |
| Successor1: | Giuseppe Saragat |
| Order3: | Minister of Foreign Trade |
| Primeminister3: | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Term Start3: | 1 June 1947 |
| Term End3: | 1 April 1949 |
| Predecessor3: | Ezio Vanoni |
| Successor3: | Giovanni Battista Bertone |
| Birth Date: | 1898 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Milan, Kingdom of Italy |
| Death Place: | Rome, Italian Republic |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Party: | Christian Democracy (1948–1963) Independent (1963–1972; 1976–1991) Italian Liberal Party (1972–1976) |
| Occupation: | Banker, manager, politician |
Cesare Merzagora (pronounced as /it/; 9 November 1898 – 1 May 1991) was an Italian politician from Milan.
Merzagora was born in Milan on 9 November 1898.[1] [2]
Between 1947 and 1949, Merzagora served as Italy's Minister of Foreign Trade.[3] He was President of Banca Popolare di Milano from 1950 to 1952, President of the Italian Senate from 1953 to 1967,[4] and was also temporarily acting head of State, in the period between the resignation of Antonio Segni and the election of Giuseppe Saragat in 1964.[5] [6] [7] Merzagora was named senator for life in March of 1963.
He ran as a candidate of the Italian Christian Democracy Party, and was affiliated with this party for most of his whole political career and then as an independent politician.[8]
He died in Rome on 1 May 1991.
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