Global InformationManuel Gomes da Costa information
His Excellency Marshal Manuel Gomes da Costa GOA GOTE GCA | |
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 Gomes da Costa in 1918 | |
| President of Portugal | |
| In office 17 June 1926[1] – 9 July 1926 | |
| Preceded by | José Mendes Cabeçadas |
| Succeeded by | Óscar Carmona |
| Prime Minister of Portugal | |
| In office 17 June 1926 – 9 July 1926 | |
| Preceded by | José Mendes Cabeçadas |
| Succeeded by | Óscar Carmona |
| Ministerial offices | |
| 1926–1926 | Acting Minister of the Interior |
| 1926–1926 | Minister of the Interior |
| 1926–1926 | Minister of War |
| 1926–1926 | Acting Minister of the Colonies |
| 1926–1926 | Minister-designate of Agriculture |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa 14 January 1863 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 17 December 1929 (aged 66) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse | Henriqueta Mira Godinho |
| Occupation | Military officer (General, posthumously Marshal) |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Portuguese Second Republic |
Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa GOA, GOTE, GCA, commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛl ˈɣomɨʒ ðɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ]) or just Gomes da Costa (14 January 1863 – 17 December 1929), was a Portuguese army officer and politician, the tenth president of Portugal and the second of the National Dictatorship.
Gomes da Costa had a distinguished military career in the country's colonies, from 1893 to 1915, in India, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé, having served under the command of Mouzinho de Albuquerque. After World War I, in which he rose to greater prominence in the command of the 1st Division of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps, he became actively engaged in politics, in staunch opposition to the dominant Democratic Party.
In 1926, he was involved in the military and political movement that resulted in the 28 May 1926 coup d'état that inaugurated a new conservative, authoritarian regime. Following the military coup, Gomes da Costa deposed moderate José Mendes Cabeçadas, who had received executive and presidential power from the removed Prime Minister António Maria da Silva and President Bernardino Machado, briefly holding the headship of government and of state in the summer of that year, until he was himself removed by another coup, to be replaced by Óscar Carmona.
- ^ Braga, Paulo Drumond (2010). "Os Presidentes da República Portuguesa : sociologia de uma função".