Giacomo Mancini

Giacomo Mancini (21 April 1916 – 8 April 2002) was an Italian politician and lawyer. He was the grandfather of the namesake politician Giacomo Mancini Jr. Biography He was son of Pietro Mancini, one of the founders of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). In 1944 he became part of the anti-fascist clandestine military organization in Rome. After the liberation, he returned to Cosenza and became secretary, until 1947, of the local socialist federation and member of the national party leadership until 1948. He served as municipal councilor of Cosenza from 1946 to 1952, while he entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, with 26,000 votes of preference, elected on the lists of the Popular Democratic Front: he remained there for ten legislatures, until 1992. In January 1953 he was elected regional secretary of the PSI. In 1956, in the aftermath of the Soviet repression of the Hungarian revolution, the political ways of the PSI and the PCI separated and Mancini was called by Pietro Nenni to take care of the organization of the party.