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Italian politician
Costante Degan
Minister of the Navy
In office
1 August 1986 – 28 July 1987
Preceded byGianuario Carta
Succeeded byGiovanni Prandini
Minister of Health
In office
4 August 1983 – 1 August 1986
Preceded byRenato Altissimo
Succeeded byCarlo Donat-Cattin
Mayor of Venice
In office
25 January 1988 – 12 February 1988
Preceded byAntonio Casellati
Succeeded byAntonio Casellati
Personal details
Born(1930-03-12)12 March 1930
Mestre, Veneto, Italy
Died1 July 1988(1988-07-01) (aged 58)
Mestre, Veneto, Italy
Political partyChristian Democracy
ProfessionEngineer

Costante Degan (12 March 1930 – 1 July 1988) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Degan was born on 12 March 1930 in Mestre, Italy. He would get a degree in engineering before working as an engineer.

Degan joined the Christian Democracy after a long youth militancy in the Catholic Action. He was municipal councilor in Venice, then in Dolo, he also served as Mayor of Venice for a few days in 1988. He was a Deputy from 1963 to 1983 and a Senator from 1983 until his death in 1988.

Degan served several times as Undersecretary of State, subsequently he served as Minister of Health from 1983 to 1986 and as Minister of Merchant Navy from 1986 to 1987.

As Minister of Health, Degan dealt with assisted fertilization and radioactivity. Having held this position during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, he was the author of the prohibitions on the sale of milk and broad-leaf vegetables during the days of the radioactive emergency. He also presented the first smoking ban bill in 1968 to ban cigarette use in restaurants.

Degan died in 1988 at the age of 58 due to lung cancer in Mestre.

References

  1. ^ "Costante Degan / Deputati / Camera dei deputati - Portale storico". storia.camera.it. Italian Parliament. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  2. "senato.it - Scheda di attività di Costante DEGAN - X Legislatura". www.senato.it. Italian Senate. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  3. "Costante Degan / Deputati / Camera dei deputati - Portale storico". storia.camera.it. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  4. Hanafin, Patrick (2016-05-23) . Conceiving Life: Reproductive Politics and the Law in Contemporary Italy. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-16255-1.
  5. "Ristoranti, ospedali e teatri: quando fumare non era un tabù". La Repubblica. 2015-11-11. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  6. BIANCHIN, ROBERTO (July 2, 1988). "E' MORTO DEGAN FU MINISTRO DELLA SANITA' - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-10-06.

External links

Craxi I Cabinet (1983–86)
Craxi II Cabinet (1986–87)


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