Aldo Oviglio

Aldo Oviglio (Rimini, 7 December 1873 – Ronerio, 19 August 1942) was an Italian lawyer and fascism politician who served, among other, as Mussolini's first minister of justice between 1922 and 1925. Born and raised in Emilia-Romagna, Oviglio initially joined the Italian Radical Party, serving several terms in Bologna's municipal and provincial councils, before joining the National Fascist Party in 1920. He was then elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1921, became minister of justice (1922–1925), During his secondary education, his family moved to Pesaro, and then to Rovigo. At this time, he began contributing columns in the democratic newspaper L'Adigetto, expressing opposition to , a local newspaper edited by whom Bergamini duelled on 7 December 1894. On the same day, Oviglio joined the National Fascist Party. His reforms included instituting a single supreme court, reforming legal codes, and slimming down Italy's judicial bureaucracy. In December 1922, he freed incarcerated squadristi,

On 18 February 1923, he signed Law No. 396, a major drug prohibition law today remembered as "Mussolini-Oviglio law" that also listed as a drug for the first time Cannabis, a plant used during centuries in Italy.

In March 1923, Oviglio was made an Honorary Corporal of the Milita. Oviglio was a member of the Grand Council of Fascism from April 1923 to December 1924, and again President of Bologna's provincial council from March 1923 to October 1928.

In September 1909, Oviglio joined a masonic lodge in Bologna, and was elevated to the third degree within a month. Italy's masonic lodges were dissolved after a legislative decree in November 1925.

Oviglio died in Ronerio, near Bologna, on 19 August 1942. He was buried with his son in the cemetery of Certosa.

Awards Oviglio was the recipient of the following:

Grand Cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy (30 December 1923)