Ivan Matteo Lombardo

Ivan Matteo Lombardo

Ivan Matteo Lombardo OMRI, GCIH (22 May 1902 – 6 February 1980) was an Italian socialist politician.

Biography

Lombardo was born in Milan in 1902. He had been the secretary of the Italian Socialist Party from 1946 to 1947. For the 1948 general election he founded with Giuseppe Saragat the Socialist Unity in opposition to the alliance of the PSI with the Italian Communist Party.[1]

He died in Rome in 1980, at 78 years old.

Awards and honors

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy) - awarded on 2 June 1955[2]
Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (Portugal) - awarded on 6 December 1966[3]

References

  1. Fateful Day, Time Magazine, March 22, 1948
  2. web, Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica-Servizio sistemi informatici- reparto. "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Quirinale (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  3. "CIDADÃOS ESTRANGEIROS AGRACIADOS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas". www.ordens.presidencia.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-02-24.
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