Son of Don Giuseppe Majorana, baron of Nicchiara and Donna Fernanda Paternò Castello of the Dukes of Carcaci, he was baptized as Benedetto Francesco di Paola Michele Maria Agatino; he was an exponent of the baronial branch of the Majorana: a family of the landed aristocracy.

He married his first cousin Donna Ilaria Maria Paternò Castello di Carcaci from which he two sons: Giuseppe and Ferdinando.

The Christian Democracy, at that moment in the opposition, focused on him to overturn the majority and nominated him for the presidency of the Region.

[1] Disappointed by the attitude of the Christian Democrat leaders, he also resigned early as a deputy on 22 February 1963, joining the Italian Liberal Party.

In 1972 he was elected Senator in the Sicily district among the ranks of the Italian Social Movement and was a member of the agriculture commission until 1976.