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Inancient Rome,quadrumvir (Italian:quadrumviri) was an elective post assigned to four citizens having police and jurisdiction power, elected by the Senate. The term is related totriumvir andduumvir, respectively describing a post of three and two people, which gave rise to the better-known extant terms "triumvirate" and "duumvirate".
At the beginning ofItalian Fascism, they were a group of four leaders that ledBenito Mussolini'sMarch on Rome.[1] They were all involved in the Fascist party under Mussolini and had been involved in politics and/or war in the period leading up to the Fascist dictatorship. They were: