Giuseppe Saragat

Giuseppe Saragat
President of the Italian Republic
In office 29 December 1964 – 29 December 1971
Prime Minister	Aldo Moro Giovanni Leone Mariano Rumor Emilio Colombo
Preceded by	Cesare Merzagora acting Antonio Segni
Succeeded by	Giovanni Leone
President of the Costituent Assembly
In office 25 June 1946 – 6 February 1947
Preceded by	Carlo Sforza
Succeeded by	Umberto Terracini
Lifetime Senator
In office 29 December 1971 – 11 June 1988
Constituency	New Constituency
Personal details
Born	(1898-09-19)19 September 1898 Turin, Italy
Died	11 June 1988(1988-06-11) (aged 89) Rome, Italy
Political party	Democratic Socialist Party
Spouse	Giuseppina Bollani

Giuseppe Saragat (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsaɾaɡat]) (19 September 1898 - 11 June, 1988) was an Italian politician who was the President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971.

Saragat was born in Turin, from sardinian parents.

He was a moderate socialist, who split from the Italian Socialist Party in 1947, out of concern over its close (at the time) alliance with the Communists, to found the Italian Socialist Workers' Party, which would soon become the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. He was to be the latter's paramount leader for the rest of his life.

Saragat was the foreign minister of Italy from 1963 to 1964, and the President of the Italian Republic from 1964.

He died in Rome on 11 June 1988.

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