Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa

Manuel Gomes da Costa
Minister for War
In office June 2, 1926 – June 17, 1926
Prime Minister	José Mendes Cabeçadas
Preceded by	José da Conceição Mascarenhas
Succeeded by	António Óscar Carmona
Minister for the Colonies
In office June 2, 1926 – June 17, 1926
Prime Minister	José Mendes Cabeçadas
Preceded by	Ernesto Maria Vieira da Rocha
Succeeded by	Armando Humberto da Gama Ochoa
Minister for Agriculture
In office June 2, 1926 – June 3, 1926
Prime Minister	José Mendes Cabeçadas
Preceded by	António Alberto Torres Garcia
Succeeded by	Ezequiel de Campos
10th President of Portugal (2nd of the Ditadura Nacional)
In office June 19, 1926 – July 9, 1926
Preceded by	José Mendes Cabeçadas
Succeeded by	António Óscar Carmona
96th Prime Minister of Portugal (42nd of the Republic) (2nd of the Ditadura Nacional)
In office June 19, 1926 – July 9, 1926
Preceded by	José Mendes Cabeçadas
Succeeded by	António Óscar Carmona
Minister for Internal Affairs
In office July 6, 1926 – July 9, 1926
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	António Claro
Succeeded by	José Ribeiro Castanho
Personal details
Born	January 14, 1863(1863-01-14) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	December 17, 1929(1929-12-17) (aged 66) Lisbon, Portuguese Republic
Political party	Independent
Spouse(s)	Henriqueta Júlia de Mira Godinho
Occupation	Military officer (General, posthumously Marshal)

Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, GOTE, GCA, commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛɫ ˈɣomɨʒ ðɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ]), or just Gomes da Costa (Lisbon, January 14, 1863 – Lisbon, December 17, 1929), son of Carlos Dias da Costa (b. Soure, Soure, Cotas) and wife Madalena de Oliveira and older brother of Lucrécia and Amália, was a Portuguese army officer and politician, the tenth President of the Portuguese Republic and the second of the Ditadura Nacional.

He began his military career by studying at the Colégio Militar at age 10. On May 15, 1885 in Penamacor he married Henriqueta Júlia de Mira Godinho (Lagos, Santa Maria, July 30, 1863 - February 22, 1936), by whom he had three children. As a soldier he stood out in pacification campaigns in the African and Indian colonies, and also during the First World War (See: Portugal in the Great War). As a politician he was the person chosen by the right-wing revolutionaries to lead the 28 May 1926 coup d'état in Braga (after the death of General Alves Roçadas, their previous choice).

Generals Tamagnini and Gomes da Costa, together with General Haking.

After the success of the revolution he did not assume power at first, entrusting the posts of President of the Republic and President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) to José Mendes Cabeçadas, the leader of the revolution in Lisbon. Soon the revolutionaries disliked Mendes Cabeçadas' attitude (which tried an approach similar to that of the late Portuguese First Republic) and he was replaced by Gomes da Costa in both posts in a meeting in Sacavém on June 17, 1926. However, his government lasted nearly as little as Cabeçadas' because on July 9 of the same year a new revolution led by Óscar Carmona overthrew Gomes da Costa, incapable of governing.

Carmona, already President of the Republic and of the Council of Ministers, sent him to exile in the Azores Islands, and made him a Marshal of the Portuguese Army. In September 1927, he returned to mainland Portugal, very ill.

He was the father in law of Pedro Francisco Massano de Amorim, Governor of Gaza, Angola, Mozambique and India.

See also

• List of Presidents of Portugal
• List of Prime Ministers of Portugal
• Portuguese First Republic
• Ditadura Nacional
• Estado Novo (Portugal)
• History of Portugal
• Timeline of Portuguese history (First Republic)
• Timeline of Portuguese history (Second Republic)
• Politics of Portugal

Preceded by José Mendes Cabeçadas

President and Prime Minister of Portugal 1926

Succeeded by António Óscar Carmona

Persondata
Name	Gomes da Costa, Manuel
Alternative names	Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Manuel de (full name)
Short description	President of Portugal
Date of birth	January 14, 1863
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Date of death	December 17, 1929
Place of death	Lisbon, Portugal