Luigi Ferraris (politician)

Luigi Ferraris (6 March 1813 – 17 October 1900) was an Italian politician, who was Senator and minister in the

.

Biography

He was born at Sostegno, in Piedmont, and graduated in law at the University of Turin, where he subsequently worked as lawyer.

A liberal in politics, in 1847 signed a protest manifesto against the brutal suppression of a riot in 1847 asking reforms to king

. He was re-elected in 1863 and in the following legislatures, and later he became Senator of Italy (1871).

In 1848 he was a supporter of the First Italian War of Independence, while in 1864, after the Unification of Italy, he opposed to the transferring of the capital from Turin to Florence. Subsequently, he worked in favour of Rome, conquered only in 1870, as the capital of the new country. In 1867 he became vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies and, during the III Menabrea cabinet, minister of the Interior (1869).

Ferraris was

cabinet (1891).

He died in Turin in 1900.

Preceded by Gerolamo Cantelli	Italian Minister of the Interior 1869	Succeeded by Antonio Starabba, marchese di Rudinì
Preceded by Giuseppe Zanardelli	Italian Minister of Justice 1891	Succeeded by Giovanni Lanza