Name Luis Mendes Parents Antonio Marques Mendes | Preceded by Antonio Costa Succeeded by Luis Filipe Menezes Role Portuguese Politician | |
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Preceded by Antonio Couto dos Santos Born 5 November 1957 (age 66) Guimaraes, Portugal ( 1957-11-05 ) Spouse Rosa Sofia Pinto Martins Salazar (m. 1982) Similar People Antonio Marques Mendes, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Luis Filipe Menezes, Manuela Ferreira Leite, Anibal Cavaco Silva | ||
Prime Minister Jose Manuel Barroso Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva | ||
Luís Manuel Gonçalves Marques Mendes, GCIH (b. Guimarães, São Pedro de Azurém, 5 September 1957) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, and a former Leader of the Social Democratic Party.
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Background
He is a son of António Marques Mendes and wife Maria Isabel Gonçalves.
Career
He is a Licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
He started his career as a lawyer.
As a member of the Social Democratic Party he became Secretary of State and Spokesman of the Government of Prof. Cavaco Silva. He has also been a Deputy to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.
He was elected the Secretary-General of his Party in 2005 after Pedro Santana Lopes and was succeeded in September 2007 by Luís Filipe Menezes.
He is also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State, elected by the Assembly of the Republic.
Family
He married in Guimarães, Vermil, on 24 April 1982, to Rosa Sofia Pinto Martins Salazar, born in Guimarães, Vermil, on 8 May 1957, a Licentiate in Modern Literatures and Languages (English and German), daughter of António Martins Fernandes Salazar (b. Guimarães, Vermil, Calçada, 19 May 1931), an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife (m. Vila do Conde, São Miguel de Arcos, 21 April 1955) Berta da Silva Pinto (Penafiel, Penafiel, 23 May 1934 – Guimarães, Creixomil, 13 February 1995), and paternal granddaughter of José Fernandes Salazar (Guimarães, Vermil, 3 March 1890 – Porto, Miragaia, 1 December 1975), an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife (m. Guimarães, Ronfe, 19 February 1925) Rosa Correia da Silva Martins (Guimarães, Ronfe, 2 January 1897 – Porto, Cedofeita, 31 August 1972). The couple has three children: