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title: GIUSEPPE SARACCO

subject date: 2004-11-25

caption: Giuseppe SARACCO (9 October 1821 – 19 January 1907) was President of the Italian Council of Ministers in the period: 24 June 1900 - 15 February 1901. Italian financier and politician, Knight of the Order of the Annunciation, born in Bistagno on 8 October 1821. After practicing as a lawyer, he entered the Piedmontese parliament in 1849. A faithful supporter of Cavour, upon his death he joined Rattazzi's party, becoming undersecretary for public works in Rattazzi's government of 1862. In 1864 the minister Quintino Sella he appointed him general secretary of finance, and in 1865 he was elected senator, gaining great notoriety as an expert in financial matters. In 1879 he managed to temporarily postpone the abolition of the grain tax and was a staunch opponent of Maglianis' financial administration, which he judged to be too permissive. Minister of public works in the Depretis governments of 1887 and Crispi of 1893, he managed to mitigate the negative effects of some questionable political and economic initiatives of Depretis, and established a more rational system of government participation in the construction of public works. In November 1898 he was elected to the presidency of the Senate, and in June 1900 he succeeded in the attempt to form a national pacification government after the institutional crisis that had caused the fall of the Pelloux cabinet. The period of his mandate was marred by the assassination of King Umberto I (29 July 1900), and finally his government fell following a vote in the Chamber which accused him of a too weak attitude on the occasion of a major strike by the port workers of Genoa. After resigning, he resumed the position of president of the Senate, but, when the Giolitti government came into force, he was not reconfirmed in this position. King Umberto I awarded him the supreme honor of the Collar of the Annunziata in 1898. Photographic portrait, 19th century Italy.

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

subject century: XIX

subject epoch: Ottocento

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