José Ferreira Bossa
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José Silvestre Ferreira Bossa GOC (Safara, Moura, 20 July 1894 - 14 February 1970) was governor of
Portuguese India The State of India, also known as the Portuguese State of India or Portuguese India, was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded seven years after the discovery of the sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the ...
and the Colonial Minister during the Estado Novo government of
António de Oliveira Salazar António de Oliveira Salazar (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as Portugal's President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal, President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1 ...
. He was the son of Eufrásio Caetano Bossa and Maria Ferreira. On 11 May 1935 he was promoted from his position of ''Sub-Secretário de Estado das Colónias'' (''Sub-Secretary of State for the Colonies''), during the 7th government of António Salazar, to become the Minister Of The Colonies, until January 18, 1936 . Between 1946 and 1947 he was appointed General Governor of Portuguese India by Portuguese President Oscar Carmona. He was greatly opposed to Goan nationalism. On 30 April 1946 he was made a Grand Officer of the Military Order of Christ.


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* * * * Governors-general of Portuguese India 1970 deaths 1894 births Portuguese expatriates in Portuguese India {{Goa-politician-stub