José de Castro

Infobox Officeholder
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name =José de Castro
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office =Minister for Instruction
term_start =May 15, 1915
term_end =May 17, 1915
monarch =
primeminister =João Chagas
predecessor =Manuel Goulart de Medeiros
successor =Sebastião de Magalhães Lima
order2 =63th Prime Minister of Portugal
(9th of the Republic)
office2 =
term_start2 =May 17, 1915 ¹
term_end2 =November 29, 1915
monarch2 =
president2 =Manuel de Arriaga (May 17, 1915–May 25, 1915)
Teófilo Braga (May 29, 1915–August 5, 1915)
Bernardino Machado (August 6, 1915–November 29, 1915)
predecessor2 =Joaquim Pimenta de Castro (last Prime Minister)
Constitutional Junta composed of:
José Norton de Matos
António Maria da Silva
José de Freitas Ribeiro
Alfredo de Sá Cardoso
Álvaro de Castro
João Chagas (did not take office)
successor2 =Afonso Costa
order3 =
office3 =Minister for Internal Affairs
term_start3 =May 17, 1915 ¹
term_end3 =June 19, 1915
monarch3 =
primeminister3 =Himself
predecessor3 =João Chagas (did not take office)
Pedro Gomes Teixeira ("de facto")
successor3 =José Augusto Ferreira da Silva
order4 =
office4 =Minister for War
term_start4 =May 17, 1915
term_end4 =July 22, 1915
monarch4 =
primeminister4 =Himself
predecessor4 =Basílio Teles (did not take office)
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro ("de facto")
successor4 =José Norton de Matos
order5 =
office5 =Minister for the Navy
term_start5 =May 17, 1915
term_end5 =June 22, 1915
monarch5 =
primeminister5 =Himself
predecessor5 =Francisco José Fernandes Costa
successor5 =N/A
order6 =
office6 =Minister for Instruction
(interim)
term_start6 =June 14, 1915
term_end6 =June 19, 1915
monarch6 =
primeminister6 =Himself
predecessor6 =Sebastião de Magalhães Lima
successor6 =João Lopes da Silva Martins Júnior
birth_date =birth date|1868|4|7|mf=y
birth_place =flagicon|Portugal|1830 Valhelhas, Kingdom of Portugal
death_date =death date and age|1929|7|31|1868|4|7|mf=y
death_place =flagicon|Portugal Lisbon, Portuguese Republic
party =Portuguese Republican Party
(later Independent)
spouse =Maria Benedita de Castro Pignatelli
relations =
children =Álvaro de Castro
residence =
alma_mater =University of Coimbra
occupation =Lawyer,
journalist,
newspaper editor
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footnotes =¹ From May 17 to May 29, 1915 with interim status.

José Augusto Soares Ribeiro de Castro (Valhelhas, 7 April 1868 - 31 July 1929), pron. IPA2|ʒu'zɛ dɨ 'kaʃtɾu, was a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and politician. He graduated in Law at the University of Coimbra, and was a lawyer in Lisbon and Guarda. A member of freemasonry, since 1868, he was originally a monarchist and a member of the liberal Progressist Party, but he joined the Portuguese Republican Party, in 1881. He was the main redactor of the newspaper "O Districto da Guarda", since its foundation in 1878, and the founder of the first republican newspaper of the province, "O Povo Português", in 1882. During the Portuguese First Republic, he remained in the Republican Party. He was President of the Ministry (Prime Minister), after the failed attempt of general Joaquim Pimenta de Castro to rule without the parliament, and was in office, from 17 May to 29 November 1915.