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Portuguese lawyer and politician (1868?1929)
Jose Augusto Soares Ribeiro de Castro
(7 April 1868 ? 31 July 1929);
Portuguese pronunciation:
[?u?z?
ð?
?ka?t?u]
, was a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and politician. He graduated in law at the
University of Coimbra
, and was a lawyer in
Lisbon
and
Guarda
. A member of
freemasonry
, he was originally a monarchist and a member of the liberal
Progressive Party
, but he joined the
Portuguese Republican Party
, in 1881. He was the main redactor of the newspaper
O Districto da Guarda
, since its foundation in 1878, and the founder of the first republican newspaper of the province,
O Povo Portugues
, in 1882. During the
Portuguese First Republic
, he remained in the Republican Party. He was
President of the Ministry
(Prime Minister), after the failed attempt of general
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro
to rule without the parliament, and was in office, from 17 May to 29 November 1915.
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