Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo
Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 19 September 1975 ? 23 July 1976
President	Francisco da Costa Gomes
Preceded by	Vasco Goncalves
Succeeded by	Mario Soares
Minister of National Defence
In office 19 September 1975 ? 23 July 1976
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Silvano Ribeiro
Succeeded by	Mario Firmino Miguel
Chief of the Navy General Staff
In office 26 April 1974 ? 28 November 1975
Preceded by	Armando Julio de Roboredo e Silva
Succeeded by	Antonio Egidio de Sousa Leitao
Personal details
Born	( 1917-06-05 ) 5 June 1917 Luanda , Portuguese Angola
Died	10 August 1983 (1983-08-10) (aged 66) Lisbon , Portugal
Political party	Independent (before 1976) Christian Democratic (from 1976)
Alma mater	Portuguese Navy School
Occupation	Naval officer
Military service
Allegiance	Portugal
Branch/service	Portuguese Navy
Years of service	1937?1976
Rank	Admiral

Admiral Jose Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo GCL ( Portuguese pronunciation: [?u?z? βa?ti?t? pi???j?u ð? ?z??veðu] ; 5 June 1917 ? 10 August 1983) was a Portuguese political figure , reformer and revolutionary. He helped overthrow Marcelo Caetano in 1974. He served as the 104th Prime Minister of Portugal between 19 September 1975 and 23 June 1976. He ran for president in 1976, and lost.

Pinheiro de Azevedo was born on 5 June 1917 in Luanda , but moved to Portugal several years later. In the 1960s, he joined the Movement for Democratic Unity and was a supporter of the Presidential candidacies of Jose Norton de Matos , Manuel Quintao Meireles and Humberto Delgado .

Pinheiro de Azevedo served in the Portuguese Colonial War , as an admiral in charge of the maritime defense of Portuguese Angola .

After the Revolution of 25 April 1974 , he was appointed to the National Salvation Junta , and was committed to the cause of democratization in Portugal.

On 29 August 1975 he became Prime Minister of the Sixth Provisional Government replacing ousted Prime Minister Vasco Goncalves .

At the end of his tenure as Prime Minister, he was replaced for the final 30 days by Vasco Almeida e Costa, Minister of Internal Administration. Pinheiro had suffered a heart attack on 23 June while campaigning in Oporto ^[1] for the Portuguese presidency as one of the independent candidates in the 27 June presidential election. He was taken to a hospital and was still recovering when President Antonio Ramalho Eanes appointed Mario Soares as the new premier.

Presidential Elections of 27 June 1976 [ edit ]

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