Giuseppe Spataro

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Giuseppe Spataro (born June 12, 1897 in Vasto , Chieti province , † June 30, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer and politician of the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) and the Democrazia Cristiana (DC), which, among other things, between 1946 and 1951 President of Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) as well as several ministers.

Life

Lawyer and involvement in the PPI

After attending school, Spataro studied law at La Sapienza University in Rome and between 1920 and 1922 was president of the Catholic student association Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana (FUCI). After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer . During this time he also began his political involvement in what was then the PPI, chaired by Luigi Sturzo, and was temporarily deputy national secretary of the party.

During the fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini , he continued to be politically active and was one of the founders of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN) in Rome on September 9, 1943 . In addition, he was alongside Alcide De Gasperi , Giovanni Gronchi and others co-founders of the Democrazia Cristiana and the party newspaper Il Popolo .

President of RAI, MP and Minister

After the end of the Second World War , he first became a member of the National Council ( Consulta Nazionale ) on April 5, 1945 and was then a member of the Constituent Assembly ( Assemblea Costituente della Repubblica Italiana ) from June 25, 1946 to April 26, 1948 .

He was also briefly Undersecretary of State in the office of Prime Minister De Gasperi before he succeeded Arturo Carlo Jemolo as President of the public service broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) on August 9, 1946 , and this function for almost five years until he was replaced by Cristiano Ridomi dressed on May 17, 1951.

At the same time he began to become politically active again and, as a representative of the DC in the constituency of L'Aquila , was elected to the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) in the first elections on April 26, 1948 and was a member of this until May 15, 1963.

After he was chairman of the faction of the DC in the Camera dei deputati from February 1949 to February 1950 , he was appointed Minister for Post and Telecommunications ( Ministro delle Poste e Telecommunicazioni ) in his sixth cabinet by Prime Minister De Gasperi on January 27, 1950 kept this office in the seventh government of De Gasperis until July 16, 1953. At the same time he was the first time Minister of the Interior of Italy from July 11 to September 18, 1952 .

He was then from July 16 to August 17, 1953 Minister for Public Works ( Ministro dei Lavoro Pubblico ) in the eighth cabinet of De Gasperi.

On July 1, 1959, Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani appointed him Minister for the Merchant Navy ( Ministro della Marina Mercantile ) in his second cabinet. From February 15, 1959 to March 25, 1960, he was again Minister of Post and Telecommunications in the second government of Prime Minister Antonio Segni . After being Minister of the Interior in Fernando Tambroni's cabinet from March 25 to July 26, 1960 , he was appointed Minister of Transport ( Ministro dei Trasporti ) by Prime Minister Fanfani on July 26, 1960 , and held this position until February 21, 1962.

Then he was still from March 1962 to May 1963 Chairman of the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.

senator

After leaving the Camera dei Deputati , he became a member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica ) on May 16, 1963 and was a member of it until July 4, 1976.

During his tenure in the Senate, he was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Works, Transport, Post, Telecommunications and the Merchant Navy and, from May 1963 to July 1976, one of the Senate Vice Presidents.

Spataro was most recently a member of the Standing Committees for Public Works and Communication, Defense and Constitutional Affairs between March 1972 and July 1976.

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personal data
SURNAME Spataro, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (PPI, DC), member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vasto , Chieti Province
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1979
Place of death Rome