Sebastiano Tecchio (3 January 1807 – 24 January 1886), was an Italian lawyer and politician that was president of the Italian Senate from 1876 to 1884.From Italian Chamber of Deputies website
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Life

Born in

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a thr ...

, he graduated at the University of Padua in law and worked as lawyer when Vicenza was part

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. In 1849 he fought against the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence ...

during the First Italian War of Independence and after the Battle of Novara he was forced to leave his hometown to live in exile in the

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

where he was, for a brief time, a minister. From 1849 to 1859 he was elected as member of chamber of deputies the lower house of the Italian parliament. After the birth of the

Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and f ...

his political career continued and he became president of the lower house of the parliament of the kingdom between 1862 and 1863. In 1866, after the

Third Italian War of Independence The Third Italian War of Independence ( it, Terza Guerra d'Indipendenza Italiana) was a war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire fought between June and August 1866. The conflict paralleled the Austro-Prussian War and resulted in ...

, he was named senator by king

Victor Emmanuel II Victor Emmanuel II ( it, Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: ''Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di Savoia''; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title o ...

. In the 1870s he was also president of the appeal court of Venice, the highest judiciary body in the region of Veneto. In 1876 he was elected president of the Senate and was forced to resign from this post due to his strong support to the irredentismo. He died in Venice in 1886.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tecchio Sebastiani 1807 births 1886 deaths People from Vicenza Historical Left politicians Deputies of Legislature I of the Kingdom of Sardinia Deputies of Legislature II of the Kingdom of Sardinia Deputies of Legislature III of the Kingdom of Sardinia Deputies of Legislature IV of the Kingdom of Sardinia Deputies of Legislature V of the Kingdom of Sardinia Deputies of Legislature VI of the Kingdom of Sardinia Deputies of Legislature VII of the Kingdom of Sardinia Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) Deputies of Legislature VIII of the Kingdom of Italy Deputies of Legislature IX of the Kingdom of Italy Presidents of the Italian Senate Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy Politicians of Veneto Italian irredentism University of Padua alumni