Preceded by Sidonio Pais Name Joao Canto Preceded by Alfredo Magalhaes | Preceded by Antonio Egas Moniz Preceded by Sidonio Pais Role Military Officer | |
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Prime Minister Joao Tamagnini Barbosa
Jose Relvas
Domingos Pereira
Alfredo de Sa Cardoso Full Name Joao do Canto e Castro da Silva Antunes Born May 19, 1862
Lisbon, Portugal ( 1862-05-19 ) Political party National Republican Party
("Sidonist Party") Died March 14, 1934, Lisbon, Portugal Presidential term December 4, 1918 – October 5, 1919 | ||
Succeeded by Antonio Jose de Almeida Presidency end date October 5, 1919 | ||
Jo o do canto e castro
João do Canto e Castro da Silva Antunes (19 May 1862; Lisbon – 14 March 1934; Lisbon), commonly known simply as João do Canto e Castro was a Portuguese Navy officer and the fifth President of Portugal, during the First Portuguese Republic. He also briefly served as 67th Prime Minister of Portugal
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Early life
He was the son of General José Ricardo da Costa da Silva Antunes (Lisbon, 7 February 1831 – 7 August 1906) and wife (m. 1860) Maria da Conceição do Canto e Castro Mascarenhas Valdez (24 October 1825 – Lisbon, 20 April 1892).
In 1891 he married Mariana de Santo António Moreira Freire Correia Manoel Torres de Aboim (Lisbon, 13 June 1865 – 18 January 1946), sister of the 1st Viscount da Idanha and niece of the 1st Viscount de Vila Boim, and had issue.
Career
He occupied the post of Navy Minister, to which he had been appointed by Sidónio Pais, the President-King on September 9, 1918, and succeeded Pais after his murder on December 14, 1918.
During his rule there were two attempts to carry out a revolution. The first one, in Santarém, in December 1918, was led by the republicans Francisco da Cunha Leal and Álvaro Xavier de Castro. The second one was monarchist and was perpetrated in January 1919 and organized by Paiva Couceiro, who for some time managed to control the northern part of the country in what was called the Monarchy of the North. Although Canto e Castro was a monarchist, as President of the Republic he had to fight against a movement that defended his own ideals.