# Giuseppe Caron > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Giuseppe_Caron > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Giuseppe_Caron.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caron > Source revision: 1310858596 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Italian politician (1904–1998) Giuseppe Caron Caron in 1963 European Commissioner for Internal Market In office 24 November 1959 – 15 May 1963 President Walter Hallstein Preceded by Piero Malvestiti Succeeded by Guido Colonna di Paliano Personal details Born (1904-02-24)24 February 1904 Treviso, Italy Died 3 March 1998(1998-03-03) (aged 94) Treviso, Italy Party Christian Democracy **Giuseppe Caron** (24 February 1904 – 3 March 1998) was an Italian [Christian Democratic Party](/source/Christian_Democracy_(Italy)) (CDP) politician who was a Minister in successive governments from the 1950s to the 1970s, and a [European Commissioner](/source/European_Commissioner). He was born in [Treviso](/source/Treviso). Caron trained as a [chemist](/source/Chemist) and worked in the [pharmaceutical](/source/Pharmaceutical) industry and as a lobbyist. Later, in 1952, he became vice-president of the Italian Chamber of Commerce During [World War II](/source/World_War_II) Caron became involved in the [resistance](/source/Italian_resistance_movement) against the [German Army](/source/German_Army_(Wehrmacht)) and was a member of the CDP *Committee for National Release* in Treviso. He was elected to the [Italian Senate](/source/Italian_Senate) in all legislative elections from the [1948 Italian general election](/source/1948_Italian_general_election) to the [1972 Italian general election](/source/1972_Italian_general_election). Caron's first political office was as under-secretary for Civil Aviation. He served as under-secretary for Public Works in the Government of [Antonio Segni](/source/Antonio_Segni) from 1955 to 1957, under-secretary for Defense in the 1957–1958 Governments of [Adone Zoli](/source/Adone_Zoli) and 1958–1959 [Amintore Fanfani](/source/Amintore_Fanfani) Government. He became active in European politics as one of the Italian delegates at the [Council of Europe](/source/Council_of_Europe). In November (or December) 1959 he was appointed as one of the Italian [European Commissioners](/source/European_Commissioner) on the first [Hallstein Commission](/source/Hallstein_Commission) to replace [Piero Malvestiti](/source/Piero_Malvestiti) who resigned to become President of the [European Coal and Steel Community](/source/European_Coal_and_Steel_Community). Caron took over Malvestiti's [Internal Market](/source/European_Commissioner_for_Internal_Market_%26_Services) portfolio. His seat in the Senate was taken by [Attilio Venudo](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attilio_Venudo). Caron was re-appointed to the second Hallstein Commission which served from January 1962 and became a Vice-President of the Commission. He resigned from the commission in May 1963 having been re-elected to the Senate in the elections of April 1963. He was replaced in the commission by [Guido Colonna di Paliano](/source/Guido_Colonna_di_Paliano). He then joined the governments of [Aldo Moro](/source/Aldo_Moro) from 1963 to 1968 where he served as under-secretary to the [Budget minister.](/source/Budgetminister) He held the same position in the first Government of [Mariano Rumor](/source/Mariano_Rumor) from 1968 to 1969 and became Budget Minister in the second Rumor Government from 1969 to 1970. ## External links - [Italian senate substitution process 1959](http://www.senato.it/leg/03/BGT/Schede/ProcANL/ProcANLscheda10266.htm) (in Italian) Political offices Preceded by Piero Malvestiti Italian European Commissioner 1959–1963 Served alongside: Giuseppe Petrilli, Lionello Levi Sandri Succeeded by Guido Colonna di Paliano European Commissioner for Internal Market 1959–1963 v t e Rumor II Cabinet (1969–70) Russo Forlani/Bo Gatto Moro Restivo Gava Caron Bosco E. Colombo Gui Aggradi Natali Sedati Gaspari Valsecchi Magrì Ripamonti Misasi V. Colombo Malfatti Donat-Cattin Scaglia v t e European Commission (1958–1962: First Hallstein Commission) Walter Hallstein (West Germany) Piero Malvestiti (Italy)* Giuseppe Caron† (Italy) Sicco Mansholt (Netherlands) Robert Marjolin (France) Hans von der Groeben (West Germany) Robert Lemaignen (France) Giuseppe Petrilli (Italy) Lionello Levi Sandri (Italy) Jean Rey (Belgium) Michel Rasquin** (Luxembourg) Lambert Schaus† (Luxembourg) *resigned – **died – †replacement v t e European commissioners from Italy Piero Malvestiti Giuseppe Petrilli Giuseppe Caron Lionello Levi Sandri Guido Colonna di Paliano Edoardo Martino Franco Maria Malfatti Altiero Spinelli Carlo Scarascia-Mugnozza Cesidio Guazzaroni Antonio Giolitti Lorenzo Natali Carlo Ripa di Meana Filippo Maria Pandolfi Antonio Ruberti Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi Emma Bonino Romano Prodi Franco Frattini Antonio Tajani Ferdinando Nelli Feroci Federica Mogherini Paolo Gentiloni Raffaele Fitto Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National France BnF data Italy People Netherlands Deutsche Biographie --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Giuseppe Caron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caron) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caron?action=history)). 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