Filippo Galvagno

Giovanni Filippo Galvagno
Giovanni Filippo Galvagno
	Giovanni Filippo Galvagno
Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Sardinia
	In office; 21 October 1849 – 26 February 1852
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy
Preceded by	Pier Dionigi Pinelli
Succeeded by	Alessandro Pernati of Momo
Minister of Agriculture and Trade of the Kingdom of Sardinia
	In office; 27 March 1849 – 6 May 1849
First Minister	Claudio Gabriele de Launay
Preceded by	Domenico Buffa
	In office; 7 May 1849 – 20 October 1849
Succeeded by	Antonio Mathieu
	In office; 5 August 1850 – 11 October 1850
Preceded by	Pietro De Rossi Di Santarosa
Succeeded by	Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Minister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Sardinia
	In office; 27 March 1849 – 6 May 1849
First Minister	Claudio Gabriele de Launay
Preceded by	Sebastiano Tecchio
	In office; 7 May 1849 – 20 October 1849
First Minister	Massimo d'Azeglio
Succeeded by	Pietro De Rossi Di Santarosa
Minister of Grace and Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Kingdom of Sardinia
	In office; 4 February 1851 – 6 July 1851
Preceded by	Giuseppe Siccardi
Succeeded by	Giovanni de Foresta
	In office; 27 February 1852 – 16 May 1852
Preceded by	Giovanni de Foresta
Succeeded by	Carlo Bon Compagni of Mombello
Senator of the Kingdom of Italy
	In office; 29 February 1860 – 27 March 1874
Deputy of the Kingdom of Sardinia
Personal details
Born	22 August 1801; Torino
Died	27 March 1874 (aged 72); Turin
Profession	magistrate

Giovanni Filippo Galvagno (22 August 1801 – 27 March 1874) was an Italian lawyer and politician, deputy, minister of the interior and justice in the d'Azeglio I government, minister of agriculture and commerce and minister of public works for two terms, senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia and mayor of Turin.

Biography

He was a lawyer at the Magistrate of Appeals of Piedmont and patrimonial lawyer to the king.

He was a deputy to the parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia in five terms, between 1848 and 1857. In 1849 he was appointed Minister of Public Works by Victor Emmanuel II, and later also served as Minister of the Interior (from 1849 to 1852), agriculture and justice.[1] In 1860 he became a senator.

A town councilor of Turin for more than twenty years (from 1848 to his death), he was also its mayor from 1866 to 1869. He found himself administering the city at a difficult time: the capital of Italy had recently been transferred to Florence, and there was fear of a serious economic crisis.[2] Upon his appointment, he received from his predecessor, Marquis Emanuele Luserna di Rorà, a precise mandate: "Turin shall become the Manchester of Italy,'" that is, the capital of industrialization. Galvagno strove to achieve this goal by promoting the construction of canals for energy production, although he had to fall back for lack of funds on a less ambitious project than the one envisioned by Luserna di Rorà, the Ceronda canal.[3]

He also held the position of president of the Turin Philharmonic Academy.[4]

He died in Turin in 1874 and was buried in the Fedio dei decurioni torinesi.

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