Silvio Gava (25 April 1901 in

Vittorio Veneto Vittorio Veneto is a city and ''comune'' situated in the Province of Treviso, in the region of Veneto, Italy, in the northeast of Italy, between the Piave and the Livenza rivers, borders with the following municipalities: Alpago ( BL), Belluno ...

– 23 December 1999 in

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) was an Italian politician who was one of the founders of the Christian Democracy Party. He hailed from a family based in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. He was a lawyer by profession. Gava became part of the Christian Democracy Party's national directorate in 1944. He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1948. 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. From 1969 to 1974 Gava was the head of Christian Democracy Party's senatorial group. Gava's son,

Antonio Gava Antonio Gava (30 July 1930 – 8 August 2008) was an Italian politician and member of Christian Democracy (DC). Son of the 13-time minister Silvio Gava, Antonio was one of the Christian Democratic Party's leading power-brokers in Campania ove ...

, was also a politician from the Christian Democracy Party and served in various ministerial posts. Silvio Gava was the author of several books, one of which is his memoirs published in 1999.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gava, Silvio 20th-century Italian lawyers 20th-century Italian writers 1901 births 1999 deaths Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Government ministers of Italy Italian Ministers of Justice People from Vittorio Veneto Politicians from Naples Italian political party founders