Augusto de Vasconcelos
Augusto de Vasconcelos | |
|---|---|
João Chagas | |
| Succeeded by | António Macieira |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 September 1867 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 27 September 1951 (aged 84) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Portuguese Republican Party |
| Spouse | Hermínia Laura de Albuquerque Moreira |
| Children | 4 |
Augusto César de Almeida de Vasconcelos Correia, GCSE (24 September 1867 – 27 September 1951), better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos (Portuguese pronunciation: [awˈɣuʃtu ðɨ vaʃkõˈsɛluʃ]) was a Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat, who served as 57th Prime Minister of Portugal.
Career
He graduated at the Lisbon Medico-Surgical School in 1891, where he also taught, later becoming a
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon
.
A
prime minister was João Pinheiro Chagas, from 12 October 1911 to 12 November 1911. He succeeded Chagas as prime minister of another Portuguese Republican Party
government, which was in power from 11 November 1911 to 4 June 1912. In that government, too, he held the post of foreign minister as well as that of prime minister. He was foreign minister again from 16 June 1912 to 9 January 1913.
Later he served as plenipotentiary
Peace Conference
, in Paris, in 1919.
After that he concentrated on diplomacy, in the service of the
President of the League of Nations
.
Decorations
He received the
Légion d'honneur of France
, etc.
Family
He was a son of Júlio César de Vasconcelos Correia (
Governor-General of India, thus being a second cousin once removed of Fernando Peyroteo and three times removed of José Couceiro
.
He married in
Oleiros
, and had:
- Júlio Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. 15 July 1906), a medical doctor, unmarried and without issue
- Maria Teresa Moreira de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
- José Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. 28 May 1910), an engineer, married to Maria Gabriela de Sampaio e Melo, and had issue:
- Maria de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
- José Maria de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
- Maria Isabel de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
- Augusto António de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to Maria Helena do Patrocínio Nogueira
- Maria José de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to José Afonso de Almada Negreiros (born 1934), son of Sarah Afonso
- Maria Micaela de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to politician Raúl Miguel de Oliveira Rosado Fernandes
- Maria Teresa de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to José Maria da Fonseca Caldeira Cabral (b. Lisbon, 1942)
- Maria Isabel Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. 3 November 1911), married to Pedro de Sárrea Mascarenhas Gaivão (b. 20 October 1907), without issue
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