Gomes da Costa

Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix =
name =Manuel Gomes da Costa
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order =Minister for War
office =
term_start =June 2, 1926
term_end =June 17, 1926
primeminister =José Mendes Cabeçadas
predecessor =José da Conceição Mascarenhas
successor =António Óscar Carmona

order2 =Minister for the Colonies
office2 =
term_start2 =June 2, 1926
term_end2 =June 17, 1926
primeminister2 =José Mendes Cabeçadas
predecessor2 =Ernesto Maria Vieira da Rocha
successor2 =Armando Humberto da Gama Ochoa

order3 =Minister for Agriculture
office3 =
term_start3 =June 2, 1926
term_end3 =June 3, 1926
primeminister3 =José Mendes Cabeçadas
predecessor3 =António Alberto Torres Garcia
successor3 =Ezequiel de Campos

order4 =10th President of Portugal
(2nd of the "Ditadura Nacional")
office4 =
term_start4 =June 19, 1926
term_end4 =July 9, 1926
monarch4 =
president4 =
predecessor4 =José Mendes Cabeçadas
successor4 =António Óscar Carmona

order5 =96th Prime Minister of Portugal
(42nd of the Republic)
(2nd of the "Ditadura Nacional")
office5 =
term_start5 =June 19, 1926
term_end5 =July 9, 1926
monarch5 =
president5 =
predecessor5 =José Mendes Cabeçadas
successor5 =António Óscar Carmona

order6 =
office6 =Minister for Internal Affairs
term_start6 =July 6, 1926
term_end6 =July 9, 1926
primeminister6 =Himself
predecessor6 =António Claro
successor6 =José Ribeiro Castanho

birth_date =birth date|1863|1|14|mf=y
birth_place =Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
death_date =death date and age|1929|12|17|1863|1|14|mf=y
death_place =Lisbon, Portuguese Republic
party =Independent
spouse =Henriqueta Júlia de Mira Godinho
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occupation =Military officer (General, posthumously Marshal)
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Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, GOTE, GCA, commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa (pronounced|mɐnuˈɛɫ ˈgomɨʃ dɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ), or just Gomes da Costa (Lisbon, January 14 1863-Lisbon, December 17 1929), son of Carlos Dias da Costa (b. Soure, Cotas) and wife Madalena de Oliveira and older brother of Lucrécia and Amália, was a Portuguese army officer and politician, tenth President of the Portuguese Republic and the second of the Military dictatorship.

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 28th May 1926 coup d'état in Braga (after the death of General Alves Roçadas, their previous choice).

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, where he died in miserable conditions, alone and poor.

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

ee 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

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