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Portuguese president and politician
Jose Mendes Cabecadas Junior
,
OTE
,
ComA
,
MPCE
(
Portuguese pronunciation:
[?u?z?
?m?d??
k?β??sað??]
), commonly known as
Mendes Cabecadas
(19 August 1883 in
Loule
– 11 June 1965 in
Lisbon
), was a
Portuguese
Navy officer,
Freemason
and
republican
, having a major role in the preparation of the revolutionary movements that created and ended the
Portuguese First Republic
: the
5 October revolution
in 1910 and the
28 May coup d'etat
of 1926. In the outcome he became the
minister of finance
for one day only on 30 May 1926, then becoming interim
minister for foreign affairs
for two days between 30 May and 1 June,
[2]
after which he again became the minister for finance on the same day. He served as the
ninth
president of Portugal
(the first of the
Military dictatorship
) and prime minister for a brief period of time.
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Career
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Mendes Cabecadas was one of those responsible for the revolt on board the ship
Adamastor
, during the Republican Revolution of 1910. However he soon became disappointed with the regime he had helped to create. In 1926 he led the revolution against the First Republic in Lisbon after
Gomes da Costa
had started it in
Braga
. Prime Minister
Antonio Maria da Silva
resigned and, just days later (31 May), President
Bernardino Machado
named him prime minister. On the same day the President also resigned and Mendes Cabecadas assumed the role of President of the Republic.
[4]
As a
revolutionary
with moderate tendencies, Mendes Cabecadas thought it possible to form a
government
that wouldn't question the constitutional regime, but with no influence on the Democratic Party. However the other revolutionaries (among them
Gomes da Costa
and
Oscar Carmona
) judged him as incapable and in a meeting in
Sacavem
on 17 June 1926, Mendes Cabecadas was forced to renounce the posts of president of the republic and president of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) in favour of
Gomes da Costa
.
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[2]
Mendes Cabecadas joined the opposition to the regime for a third time, involving himself in several revolutionary attempts and subscribed to many manifestos against the dictatorship, until his death in 1965
[5]
during the period known as the
Estado Novo
(New State), headed by
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
.
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Personal life
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Mendes Cabecadas married Maria das Dores Formosinho Vieira (
Silves
, 6 January 1880 ? 22 December 1949) in Santa Isabel,
Lisbon
, in March 1911. The couple had four daughters.
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