Augusto César de Almeida de Vasconcelos Correia, GCSE (24 September 1867 – 27 September 1951), better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos () was a Portuguese surgeon,

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and

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, who served as 57th Prime Minister of Portugal.

Career

He graduated at the Lisbon Medico-Surgical School in 1891, where he also taught, later becoming a

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of the Faculty of Medicine of the

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. A republican since his youth, he was

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of the first Constitutional Government of the Portuguese First Republic, whose

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was João Pinheiro Chagas, from 12 October 1911 to 12 November 1911. He succeeded Chagas as prime minister of another Portuguese Republican Party government, which was in power from 11 November 1911 to 4 June 1912. In that government, too, he held the post of foreign minister as well as that of prime minister. He was foreign minister again from 16 June 1912 to 9 January 1913. Later he served as plenipotentiary

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in Madrid (1913–1914) and London (1914–1919), during World War I, which Portugal entered in 1916 on the Allies' side. Subsequently, he led the Portuguese delegation at the Peace Conference, in Paris, in 1919. After that he concentrated on diplomacy, in the service of the

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as a delegate of Portugal. He helped to solve international conflicts, like the

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Decorations

He received the Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint James of the Sword, the Order of Isabel the Catholic, the Order of the Crown of

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and both the Orders of Merit of

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and

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and was Grand Officer of the

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, etc.

Family

He was a son of Júlio César de Vasconcelos Correia ( Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho or Santa Catarina, 21 December 1837 – Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho, 31 December 1910), an

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and a Shipbuilder, and wife (m. Lisbon, Encarnação) Constança Libânia Auta de Almeida ( Lisbon, Santos o Velho, c. 1840 – Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho, 13 March 1926). His father was a natural son of António César de Vasconcelos Correia, 1st

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and 1st

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of Torres Novas and 93rd

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, thus being a second cousin once removed of Fernando Peyroteo and three times removed of José Couceiro. He married in Lisbon, Santa Catarina, Hermínia Laura de Albuquerque Henriques Moreira ( Castelo Branco, Sé, 2 September 1869 – Lisbon, Santa Catarina, 28 September 1947), widow of Augusto Pereira Leite and daughter of José Joaquim Henriques Moreira ( Lisbon, Alcântara, 29 April 1820 – 6 January 1895),

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of the Municipal Guard,

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of the Order of Aviz and

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of the Order of the Tower and Sword, etc., and wife (m. 7 November 1868) Maria Hermínia de Albuquerque de Mesquita e Paiva (15 October 1844 – 7 June 1910), daughter of the 2nd

(formerly Barons) of Oleiros, and had: * Júlio Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. 15 July 1906), a medical doctor, unmarried and without issue * Maria Teresa Moreira de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue * José Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. 28 May 1910), an

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, married to Maria Gabriela de Sampaio e Melo, and had issue: ** Maria de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue ** José Maria de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue ** Maria Isabel de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue ** Augusto António de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to Maria Helena do Patrocínio Nogueira ** Maria José de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to José Afonso de Almada Negreiros (born 1934), son of José Sobral de Almada Negreiros and wife

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** Maria Micaela de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to

Raúl Miguel de Oliveira Rosado Fernandes ** Maria Teresa de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to José Maria da Fonseca Caldeira Cabral (b. Lisbon, 1942) * Maria Isabel Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. 3 November 1911), married to Pedro de Sárrea Mascarenhas Gaivão (b. 20 October 1907), without issue

External links

Augusto de Vasconcelos's genealogy in a Portuguese genealogical site
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