List of prime ministers of the Kingdom of Sardinia
The prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia (Italian: primo ministro del Regno di Sardegna), officially known as the president of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Sardinia (presidente del Consiglio dei ministri del Regno di Sardegna), was the head of government of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was de facto based in Piedmont (de jure since the Perfect Fusion of 1847) and as a result is also known as Piedmont–Sardinia, and is the legal predecessor of the Kingdom of Italy and thus of the office of prime minister of Italy.
The office was created in 1730 as Grand Chancellor (gran cancelliere). After a brief break of two years in 1740 and another after 1745, the office was revived in 1756 as First Secretary of State (primo segretario di Stato). Following another break after 1763, the office reverted back to that of Grand Chancellor between 1768–1779 and 1789–1793. The office, known in English as prime minister, was revived with the granting of the Albertine Statute in 1848 until the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
Heads of government of the Kingdom of Sardina (1730–1848)
| Grand Chancellor | Term start | Term end | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giovanni Cristoforo Zoppi | 1730 | 1740 | [1] |
| Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero d'Ormea | 1742 | 1745 | [1] |
| First Secretary of State | Term start | Term end | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Osorio Alarcòn | 1756 | 1763 | [1] |
| Grand Chancellor | Term start | Term end | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlo Luigi Caissotti | 1768 | 1779 | [1] |
| Giuseppe Ignazio Corte | 1789 | 1793 | [1] |
Prime ministers of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1861)
- Political parties
- Governments
| Portrait | Name (Birth–death) |
Term of office | Political party | Cabinet | Composition | Legislature (Election) |
Monarch (Reign) |
Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||||
 |
Count Cesare Balbo (1789–1853) |
18 March 1848 |
27 July 1848 |
131 days | Moderate Party | Balbo | Moderate • Military | I 1848 |
 Charles Albert (1831–1849) |
[2] | |
 |
Count and Baron Gabrio Casati (1789–1873) |
27 July 1848 |
15 August 1848 |
19 days | Moderate Party | Casati | Moderate • Military | [3] | |||
 |
Marquess and Count Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno (1799-1869) |
15 August 1848 |
11 October 1848 |
57 days | Moderate Party | Alfieri | Moderate • Military | [3] | |||
 |
Count Ettore Perrone di San Martino (1789–1849) |
11 October 1848 |
16 December 1848 |
66 days | Military | Perrone | Moderate • Military | [3] | |||
 |
Vincenzo Gioberti (1801–1852) |
16 December 1848 |
21 February 1849 |
67 days | Moderate Party | Gioberti | Moderate • Military | [3] | |||
 |
General Agostino Chiodo (1791–1861) |
21 February 1849 |
27 March 1849 |
34 days | Military | Chiodo | Moderate • Military | II January 1849 |
[3] | ||
 |
Count Claudio Gabriele de Launay (1786–1850) |
27 March 1849 |
7 May 1849 |
41 days | Military | De Launay | Moderate • Military | III July 1849 |
 Victor Emmanuel II (1849–1861) |
[3] | |
 |
Marquess Massimo d'Azeglio (1798–1866) |
7 May 1849 |
21 May 1852 |
3 years, 168 days | Moderate Party | D'Azeglio I | Moderate • Military | IV December 1849 |
[3] | ||
| 21 May 1852 |
22 October 1852 |
D'Azeglio II | |||||||||
 |
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810–1861) |
22 October 1852 |
4 May 1855 |
6 years, 270 days | Moderate Party | Cavour I | Cavour–Rattazzi Pact Moderate • Military |
V 1853 |
[3] | ||
| 4 May 1855 |
19 July 1859 |
Cavour II | VI 1857 | ||||||||
 |
General Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804–1878) |
19 July 1859 |
21 January 1860 |
186 days | Military | La Mormora I | Moderate • Military | [3] | |||
|
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810–1861) |
21 January 1860 |
23 March 1861 |
1 year, 61 days | Moderate Party | Cavour III | Moderate • Military | VII 1860 |
[3] | ||
Timeline
See also
References
Bibliography
General
- Bartolotta, Francesco (1971). Parlamenti e governi d'Italia dal 1848 al 1970 (in Italian). Vol. 1. V. Bianco. Retrieved 12 April 2026 – via Google Books.
- Bartolotta, Francesco (1971). Parlamenti e governi d'Italia dal 1848 al 1970 (in Italian). Vol. 2. V. Bianco.
- Cariche del Piemonte e Paesi uniti colla serie cronologica delle persone che le hanno occupate ed altre notizie di nuda istoria dal fine del secolo decimo sino al dicembre 1798 con qualche aggiunta relativa anche al tempo posteriore (in Italian). Vol. 1. 1798. Retrieved 12 April 2026 – via Google Books.
Individual prime ministers
- D'Entrèves, Ettore Passerin (1963). "Balbo, Cesare". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 5. Rome: Italian Encyclopedia Institute. Retrieved 11 February 2024 – via Treccani.