- António Maria Baptista
Infobox Officeholder
honorific-prefix =
name =António Maria Baptista
honorific-suffix =
imagesize =150px
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order =Minister for War
office =
term_start =March 30 ,1919
term_end =June 29 ,1919
monarch =
primeminister =Domingos Pereira
predecessor =António Maria de Freitas Soares
successor =Hélder Ribeiro
order2 =Minister for Interior
(interim)
office2 =
term_start2 =April 20 ,1919
term_end2 =April 28 ,1919
monarch2 =
primeminister2 =Domingos Pereira
predecessor2 =Domingos Pereira
successor2 =Domingos Pereira
order3 =74thPrime Minister of Portugal
(20th of the Republic)
office3 =
term_start3 =March 8 ,1920
term_end3 =June 26 ,1920
monarch3 =
president3 =António José de Almeida
predecessor3 =Domingos Pereira
successor3 =José Ramos Preto
order4 =Minister for Interior
office4 =
term_start4 =March 8 ,1920
term_end4 =June 26 ,1920
monarch4 =
primeminister4 =Himself
predecessor4 =Domingos Pereira
successor4 =João Pedroso de Lima
birth_date =birth date|1866|1|5|mf=y
birth_place =flagicon|Portugal|1830Beja ,Kingdom of Portugal
death_date =death date and age|1920|6|6|1866|1|5|mf=y
death_place =flagicon|PortugalLisbon , Portuguese Republic
party =Democratic Party
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alma_mater =
occupation =Army officer (General )
profession =
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website =
footnotes =António Maria Baptista, GCTE (
Beja ,5 January 1866 -Lisbon ,6 June 1920 ), pron. IPA2|ɐ̃'tɔniu mɐ'ɾiɐ ba'tiʃtɐ, was a Portuguese military officer and politician. When he was lieutenant, he fought inMozambique , during the wars of pacification against theVátuas , lead byGungunhana . He was promoted to colonel in 1917. He fought the monarchist uprising of 1919, and was nominated Minister of War in the same year. He, then, distinguished himself during a series of violent strikes, and a year later was nominated and became President of the Ministry (Prime Minister), on8 March 1920 . He died suddendly while in office, after a Council of Ministers reunion, on 6 June 1920. He was posthumusly promoted to general and was decorated with the Great-Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword (Ordem da Torre e Espada).
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