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Silvio Gava (25 April 1901 in Vittorio Veneto – 23 December 1999 in Rome) was an Italian politician who was one of the founders of the Christian Democracy Party.[1] He hailed from a family based in Naples.[2] He was a lawyer by profession.[3]
Gava became part of the Christian Democracy Party's national directorate in 1944.[4] He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1948.[4] He held several government posts for 13 times between 1948 and 1975, including minister of grace and justice, minister of treasury and minister of industry and commerce.[1][5] From 1969 to 1974 Gava was the head of Christian Democracy Party's senatorial group.[3]
Gava's son, Antonio Gava, was also a politician from the Christian Democracy Party and served in various ministerial posts.[3] Silvio Gava was the author of several books,[6] one of which is his memoirs published in 1999.[3]
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- ^ a b Judith Chubb (October 1980). "Naples Under the Left: The Limits of Local Change". Comparative Politics. 13 (1): 55. doi:10.2307/421763. JSTOR 421763.
- ^ Roberta Cristin (2019). Legislature V of Italy and Andreotti I Cabinet (MA thesis). LUISS.
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