Francesco Cerabona

Francesco Cerabona
Minister of Communications of the Kingdom of Italy
In office 24 April 1944 – 12 December 1944
Preceded by	Tommaso Siciliani
Succeeded by	Mario Cevolotto
Minister of Transport of the Kingdom of Italy
In office 12 December 1944 – 21 June 1945
Preceded by	office created
Succeeded by	Ugo La Malfa
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy
In office 1 December 1919 – 25 January 1924
Member of the Italian National Council
In office 25 September 1945 – 1 June 1946
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic
In office 8 May 1948 – 24 June 1953
Member of the Senate of the Italian Republic
In office 25 June 1953 – 15 May 1963
Personal details
Born	(1882-12-09)9 December 1882 Aliano, Kingdom of Italy
Died	26 July 1963(1963-07-26) (aged 80) Naples, Italy
Political party	Italian Socialist Party Labour Democratic Party

Francesco Cerabona (Aliano, 9 December 1882 – Naples, 26 July 1963) was an Italian politician, who served as Minister of Communications of the Kingdom of Italy in the Badoglio II and Bonomi II Cabinets, and as Minister of Transport in the Bonomi III Cabinet.

Biography

Born in the province of Matera, Cerabona had graduated in law and worked as a lawyer. Having joined the Italian Socialist Party, he ran without success in the 1913 elections but was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1919 and again in 1921.[1]

After the twenty-year "pause" imposed by the Fascist regime, he returned to politics in 1943, with the Labour Democratic Party, and was appointed Minister of Communications in the Badoglio II Cabinet, from April to June 1944, and confirmed in this post by the subsequent Bonomi II Cabinet, from June to December 1944.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

When the Ministry of Transport, which had been suppressed and merged into the Ministry of Public Works in 1920, was re-established under the Bonomi III Cabinet, Cerabona was given this post, from December 1944 to June 1945; in this capacity he had to deal with the reconstruction of the Italian railway network, severely damaged by the war.[8][9]

After the war, having returned to the Italian Socialist Party, he was a member of the Italian National Council and was then elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic in 1948 and to the Senate in 1953 and again in 1958.[10][11][1] He died in 1963, shortly after the end of his second term in the Senate.[12]

References

1. "Francesco Cerabona / Deputati / Camera dei deputati - Portale storico". storia.camera.it.
2. "Governo Bonomi 2".
3. Cestaro, Antonio; Rosa, Gabriele De (November 25, 2021). Storia della Basilicata. 4. L'Età contemporanea. Editori Laterza. ISBN 9788858147764 – via Google Books.
4. Stato (Italy), Azienda autonoma delle ferrovie dello (March 4, 1953). "Relazione per l'anno" – via Google Books.
5. "Governo Badoglio II". www.governo.it. November 20, 2015.
6. "Governo Bonomi II". www.governo.it. November 20, 2015.
7. "Governo Bonomi". www.governo.it. November 20, 2015.
8. "Il Partito Democratico del Lavoro in Capitanata: storia di una meteora politica" (PDF).
9. La Giunta esecutiva dei partiti antifascisti nel sud
10. "senato.it - Scheda di attività di Francesco CERABONA - III Legislatura". www.senato.it.
11. "senato.it - Scheda di attività di Francesco CERABONA - II Legislatura". www.senato.it.
12. Dati personali e incarichi nella I Legislatura