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Alfredo Nobre da Costa

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President
  
Antonio Ramalho Eanes

Political party
  
Independent

Resigned
  
November 22, 1978

Preceded by
  
Antonio Sousa Gomes

Succeeded by
  
Carlos Mota Pinto

Prime Minister
  
Mario Soares

Role
  
Portuguese Politician

Preceded by
  
Mario Soares

Name
  
Alfredo da



Born
  
10 September 1923 Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal (
1923-09-10
)

Died
  
April 2, 1996, Lisbon, Portugal

Spouse
  
Lourdes de Carvalho (m. 1951)

Similar People
  
Antonio Ramalho Eanes, Carlos Correa Gago, Carlos I of Portugal

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Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, (Lisbon, Lapa, 10 September 1923 — Lisbon, 4 February 1996), commonly known just by Nobre da Costa ([ˈnɔbɾ(ɨ) dɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ]), was a Portuguese engineer and politician.

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He was the only son of Alfredo Henrique Andresen da Costa (b. 4 November 1893), of Goan, Italian, French and/or Catalan, Danish and Portuguese ancestry, and wife Portuguese Maria Helena Nobre.

He graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico.

A moderate independent center-left politician, he was chosen by President António Ramalho Eanes to lead a government that would finish the four-year legislative term, which had been initiated in the Portuguese legislative election, 1976. His cabinet consisted of independents. However, it failed to gain a majority in the Assembly of the Republic, and Nobre da Costa resigned. He was replaced by Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto.

He married on 5 May 1951 Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama and had a single daughter Vera Maria Nobre da Costa (b. 5 February 1952).

Honours

  • Commander of the Order of Christ, Portugal (15 September 1961)
  • Grand-Cross of the Order of Christ, Portugal (9 April 1981)
  • Grand-Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Italy (11 April 1985)
  • References

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