Bernardino Machado
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1914–1914 | Foreign Affairs |
1911–1911 | Justice |
1910–1911 | Foreign Affairs |
1893–1893 | Public Works, Trade and Industry Affairs |
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Born | Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil | 28 March 1851
Died | 29 April 1944 Porto, Portugal | (aged 93)
Political party | Portuguese Republican (later Democratic) |
Spouse | |
Children | 8 daughters and 8 sons |
Education | Liceu Nacional do Porto |
Alma mater | University of Coimbra |
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Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães,
In 1917, Sidónio Pais, who was at the head of a military junta, dissolved Congress and removed Machado, forcing him to leave the country. Later, in 1925, he returned to the presidency of the Republic and, a year later, he was again overthrown by the military revolution of 28 May 1926, which instituted the military dictatorship and paved the way for the establishment of the Estado Novo.
Early life
Bernardino Machado was born in
In Porto in January 1882 he married
Political scene
Bernardino Machado began in politics from a young age, by the leader of the
In 1890 and 1894 was also elected
In February 1893, Machado joined the first ministry of Hintze Ribeiro, as Minister of Public Works, Commerce and Industry, presenting his resignation in December of that same year.[2]
Machado had an important career as leader of Freemasonry (in the Lodge of Perseverance of the Grand Orient of Portugal, with the symbolic name of "Littré").[2] From 1892 to 1895 he was the 7th President of the Order of the Grand Orient of Portugal, from 1895 to 1899 he was the 18th Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council attached to the Grande Oriente Lusitano and 7th Grand Master of the Grande Oriente Lusitano United and from 1929 until his death in 1944 was the 23rd Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council attached to the Lusitanian Grand Orient.[3]
In 1903, due to his growing disbelief in monarchical values, he joined the Portuguese Republican Party. On 31 October 1903 he professed his republican faith in a conference given at the Ateneu Comercial in Lisbon, thus marking his formal adherence to the Party. Since then, he contributed much to the remodeling and organization of the Party as a political force; participated in vigorous propaganda campaigns of republican ideals and participated actively in numerous rallies. In 1904, 1905 and 1906 he was a candidate for deputy on the republican lists, always for the Lisbon constituency, however, he was not elected.[2]
Machado was also briefly President of the Directory of the Democratic Party in 1902, and after switching to the Republican Party, was this party's President of the Directory from 1906 to 1909. He was one of the few
In the legislative elections of August 1910, he was one of the five deputies elected by Eastern Lisbon, along with António José de Almeida, Afonso Costa, Alfredo de Magalhães and Miguel Bombarda.[2]
Once the Republic was proclaimed in 1910 he was made Minister for Foreign Affairs, and ran an unsuccessful campaign for the presidential elections of 1911. Afterwards, on 20 January 1912, he was appointed Minister of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro, assuming office in July that year. The diplomatic mission was promoted to embassy in November 1913, with Bernardino Machado being the first Portuguese ambassador to that country.[2]
When he returned to Portugal in February 1914, the country was in a ministerial crisis with the resignation of Afonso Costa as head of government. Bernardino Machado was called to set up an extrapartisan ministry, in order to appease the heated political sentiments, foreseeing in his program a truce proposal to monarchists, trade unionists and Catholics, to whom he promised a revision of the religious segregation law. In June of that year, Bernardino Machado requested the resignation of the executive who presided, but was again called to form a government: the 7th Republican government was once again "extra-partisan", with all the ministers, except for the president, who was independent.[2]
Machado ran again for the presidency in 1915 and was this time elected
In 1917 the government was deposed by a military coup headed by Sidónio Pais, and Machado went into exile.
Upon Machado's return in 1919 he was elected Senator. He served as
For a second time he went into exile in France, where he continued to be very critical of the Portuguese regime. The German occupation of France in 1940 forced him to seek protection in Portugal, which the government granted him with the condition that he was to be confined to his personal retreat in the northern part of Portugal. It was there in Porto that he died, aged 93, in 1944, making him the longest lived Portuguese president ever.
Personal life
He was the father-in-law of the noted writer Aquilino Ribeiro, grandfather of the politician Aquilino Ribeiro Machado and the great-grandfather of the psychologist and sexologist Júlio Machado Vaz. In 1906, Machado was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.[4]
Books
- Introdução à Pedagogia, 1902
- O Ensino, 1898
- O Ensino Primário e Secundário, 1899
- O Ensino Superior, 1900
References
- ^ "Aquilino Ribeiro Machado morreu aos 82 anos" [Aquilino Ribeiro Machado died aged 82]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 8 October 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Presidentes da Primeira República - Bernardino Machado" (Biografia)". Archived from the original on 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Dirigentes das Maçonarias Portuguesas". members.tripod.com. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory