Umberto Tupini (27 May 1889 – 7 January 1973) was an Italian politician. He was minister of public works (1947–1950) in the

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. He was the mayor of

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(1956–1958). He served in the

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in Legislature I (1948–1953), Legislature II (1953–1958), Legislature III (1958–1963) and Legislature IV (1963–1968). He was a knight grand cross of the

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Biography

Born in Rome to parents from the Marche, Umberto Tupini was Minister of Grace and Justice in the

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(1944) and in the

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(1944–1945). He was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 among the ranks of the

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Within the party he joined the De Gasperi's faction, which then took the name of "Popular politics". Elected Senator for the first time in 1948, he was re-elected also in 1953, 1958 and 1963. He was Minister of Public Works in the De Gasperi IV Cabinet (1947–1948) and in the De Gasperi V Cabinet (1948–1950); He served also as Minister without portfolio for the reform of Public Administration in the Fanfani I Cabinet (1954) and in the Scelba Cabinet (1954–1955). He was Mayor of

from 2 July 1956 to 10 January 1958, chairing a centrist junta made up of Christian Democrats, liberals and Social Democrats. He was on the Board of Directors of AS Roma football team between 1959 and 1962. After the experience of municipal administrator, Tupini was Minister of Tourism, sport and entertainment in the Segni II Cabinet (1959–1960) and in the

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(1960). His appointment was preparatory to the organization of the Rome Olympics, set in August 1960. On 15 June 1960 he announced that the censorship against all films with "scandalous, negative subjects for the formation of Italian civil conscience" would be drastic, referring to

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