Prime Minister Himself Preceded by Antonio Maria da Silva Children 4 daughters Role Military Officer | Preceded by Bernardino Machado Political party Independent Name Jose Cabecadas Presidency end date June 17, 1926 | |
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Born 19 August 1883
Loule, Portugal ( 1883-08-19 ) Occupation Naval officer (Admiral) Died June 11, 1965, Lisbon, Portugal Spouse Maria das Dores Formosinho Vieira (m. 1911) Presidential term May 31, 1926 – June 17, 1926 Succeeded by Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa | ||
JOSÉ MENDES CABEÇADAS
Jose Mendes Cabecadas Junior, OTE, ComA ([ʒuˈze ˈmediʃ kabiˈsadaʃ]), commonly known as Mendes Cabecadas (19 August 1883 in Loule – 11 June 1965 in Lisbon), was a Portuguese Navy officer, free mason 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 69th 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, after which he again became the 70th Minister for Finance on the same day. He served as the ninth President of the Republic (the first of the Military dictatorship) and Prime Minister for a brief period of time (from 31 May 1926 to 16 June 1926).
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.
As a revolutionary with moderate tendencies he 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.
He 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 during the period known as the Estado Novo (New State), headed by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
He married in Santa Isabel, Lisbon, in March 1911 Maria das Dores Formosinho Vieira (Silves, Silves, 6 January 1880 – 22 December 1949) and had four daughters.