Giuseppe Spataro
Giuseppe Spataro ( born June 12, 1897 in Vasto, Province of Chieti, † June 30, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer and politician of the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI ) and the Christian Democrats (DC), among others, 1946-1951 President of Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI ) and multiply ministers.
Life
Lawyer and commitment to the PPI
After schooling Spataro studied law at the University La Sapienza in Rome and was during his studies 1920-1922 president of the Catholic Student Association Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana ( FUCI ). After graduating, he worked as a lawyer. During this time he also began his political involvement in the former PPI chaired by Luigi Sturzo, and was temporarily Deputy National Secretary of the party.
During the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, he engaged further politically, and was on September 9, 1943 in Rome, one of the founders of the Comitato Nazionale di Liberation (CLN ) . He was also next to Alcide De Gasperi, Giovanni Gronchi and other co-founder of the Christian Democrats and the party newspaper Il Popolo.
President of RAI, Deputy Minister
After the end of World War II he was on 5 April 1945 the first member of the National Council ( Consulta Nazionale ) and was followed on 25 June 1946 to 26 April 1948 Member of the Constituent Assembly ( Assemblea Costituente della Repubblica Italiana ).
He was also briefly Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Prime Minister De Gasperi, before he was appointed as successor by Arturo Carlo Jemolo president of the public- service broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana ( RAI) on August 9, 1946 and this function for almost five years until its replacement by Cristiano Ridomi held on 17 May 1951.
At the same time he began to become politically active again, and was as a representative of DC in the constituency of L' Aquila in the first elections on 26 April 1948 Member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) and was elected to this until 15 May 1963.
Having to February 1950 Chairman of the Group of DC in the Camera dei deputati was from February 1949, he ( Ministro delle Poste e Telecomunicazioni ) was Prime Minister De Gasperi on 27 January 1950 for the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications appointed to the Cabinet and sixth held that office in the seventh government of De Gasperi to 16 July 1953. he was also in this period from 11 July to 18 September 1952 for the first time Interior Minister of Italy.
Then he was from July 16 to August 17, 1953 Minister of Public Works ( Ministro dei Lavoro Pubblico ) in the eighth Cabinet De Gasperi.
On 1 July 1959 him Prime Minister Fanfani Amintore appointed Minister for Mercantile Marine ( Ministro della Marina Mercantile ) in the second cabinet. He was subsequently appointed on 15 February 1959 to 25 March 1960 again Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in the second government of Prime Minister Antonio Segni. After he was in the Cabinet of Minister of the Interior Fernando Tambroni from March 25 to July 26, 1960, he was on 26 July 1960 by Prime Minister Fanfani for Transport Minister ( Ministro dei Trasporti ) appointed and held this position until February 21, 1962.
Then he was from March 1962 to May 1963 Chairman of the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.
Senator
After retiring from the Camera dei deputati he was born on May 16, 1963 Member of the Senate ( Senato della Repubblica) and belonged to this until 4 July 1976.
During his membership in the Senate he was a member of the Standing Committee on Public Works, Transport, Post, Telecommunications and merchant marine, as well as from May 1963 to July 1976 a Vice-President of the Senate.
Last Spataro was between March 1972 and July 1976 temporarily a member of the Standing Committees on Public Works and Communications, for defense and for Constitutional Affairs.