Sidónio Pais

Infobox Officeholder
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name =Sidónio Pais
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order =Minister of Foment
term_start =September 3, 1911
term_end =November 12, 1911
primeminister =João Chagas
predecessor =Brito Camacho
successor =José Estêvão de Vasconcelos
order2 =Minister of Finances
term_start2 =November 12, 1911
term_end2 =June 16, 1912
primeminister2 =Augusto de Vasconcelos
predecessor2 =Duarte Leite
successor2 =António Vicente Ferreira
order3 =67th Prime Minister of Portugal
(13th of the Republic)
term_start3 =December 5, 1917
term_end3 =December 14, 1918
monarch3 =
president3 ="None"
(Himself, as Prime Minister was the head of state)
predecessor3 =Bernardino Machado (as President)
Afonso Costa (as Prime Minister)
successor3 =Himself (as President)
João do Canto e Castro (as Prime Minister)
order4 =Minister for War
term_start4 =December 5, 1917
term_end4 =May 11, 1918
primeminister4 =Himself
predecessor4 =José Norton de Matos
successor4 =João Tamagnini Barbosa
order5 =Minister of Foreign Affairs
term_start5 =December 5, 1917
term_end5 =May 11, 1918
primeminister5 =Himself
predecessor5 =Augusto Vieira Soares (efective)
Ernesto Jardim Vilhena (interim)
successor5 =Francisco Xavier Esteves
order6 =4th
office6 =President of Portugal
term_start6 =April 28, 1918
term_end6 =December 14, 1918
predecessor6 =Bernardino Machado (effective)
Himself (interim, as Prime Minister Head of State)
successor6 =João do Canto e Castro
birth_date =birth date|1872|5|1|mf=y
birth_place =flagicon|Portugal|1830 Caminha, Kingdom of Portugal
death_date =death date and age|1918|12|14|1872|5|1|mf=y
death_place =flagicon|Portugal Lisbon, Portuguese Republic
party =National Republican Party
("Sidonist Party")
spouse =Maria dos Prazeres Martins Bessa; Ema Manso Preto (non-marital liaison)
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children =Sidónio, António, Maria Sidónia, Afonso and Pedro; Maria Olga (out of wedlock)
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occupation =Military officer (Major)
Lecturer of Mathematics and Astronomy
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religion =Roman Catholic


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nickname ="Presidente-Rei" (President-King)

Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais (pronounced|siˈdɔniu ˈpaiʃ; Caminha, Caminha, May 1, 1872–Lisbon, December 14, 1918) was a Portuguese politician and diplomat, 4th President in 1918. He was known as the "President-King".

He was the eldest child and son of Sidónio Alberto Marrocos Pais (Caminha, Nossa Senhora da Assunção, November 1, 1846 [Baptised in Caminha, Nossa Senhora da Assunção, on December 2, 1846.] – Ferreira do Zêzere, Dornes, August 27, 1883), a Law Clerk and Public Notary in Caminha and later in Pedrógão Grande and Sertã, and wife (m. Caminha, Nossa Senhora da Assunção, June 22, 1871) Rita Júlia Cardoso da Silva (Caminha, Caminha, August 29, 1844 – Caminha, Caminha, March 9, 1919). His brothers and sisters were Rita (b. Caminha, Caminha, 1873), Alberto (Caminha, Caminha, 1874 – Caminha, Caminha, 1877), António (Caminha, Caminha, November 15, 1876 – Lisbon, Hospital da Marinha, June 27, 1949), who was also a military and married at the Igreja Matriz de Caminha, Caminha, May 7, 1904 Júlia Cândida de Sant' Ana Cerqueira (Caminha, Caminha, September 1, 1881 – Lisbon, June 6, 1968) and had issue, Ana da Glória (b. Caminha, Caminha, 1878), Alberto (b. Pedrógão Grande, 1881, d. child) and Aureliano (b. Sertã, 1883, d. child).

He was an army officer and taught mathematics at the Army School, and later, at the University of Coimbra. He became a member of Parliament in 1911, and from November 12, 1911 he was the 4th Minister of Finance for a short period. He was ambassador in Berlin from 1912 until 1916, when Portugal joined the First World War on the Allied side.

On December 5, 1917, he led an uprising against Afonso Costa's Democratic Party government, and established an authoritarian regime. He became the 99th Prime-Minister and was elected President (unopposed) on April 28, 1918. He also became the Minister for Foreign Affairs from December 11, 1917 until May 9, 1918.His short period in office saw a warming of Church-state relations, the extension of the electoral franchise, and the smashing defeat of the ill-prepared Portuguese troops at La Lys, in France.

He escaped a first assassination attempt, but was shot on December 14, 1918 by José Júlio da Costa (great-grandfather of the present Mayor of Lisbon António Costa), at Rossio railway station, in Lisbon, when he was preparing to board a train to Porto, to hold discussions with the monarchist leaders of the Northern Military Juntas.

Descendants

Married in Amarante in 1895 to Maria dos Prazeres Martins Bessa (Amarante, São Gonçalo, 1868/1869–Porto?/Lisbon, September 14, 1945), daughter of Vitorino Ferreira Bessa (Penafiel, Luzim/Perozelo, 1810–Amarante, São Gonçalo, February 16, 1894), a Landowner, and wife Bernardina Joaquina/Augusta Pinto Martins (Valença, Santa Maria da Praça, Casa do Assento Militar, 1826–March 15, 1905), the couple had five children, four sons and one daughter. Out of wedlock, by one Ema Manso Preto (born in September 12, 1871 and wife in December 22, 1900 of Álvaro Augusto Leite Ribeiro), he also had a daughter. He is the great-grandfather in male line of pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais

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1= 1. Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais
2= 2. Sidónio Alberto Marrocos Pais
3= 3. Rita Júlia Cardoso da Silva
4= 4. Bernardo José Pais de Azevedo
5= 5. Francisca Rita Marrocos
6= 6. António Serafim Cardoso
7= 7. Ana da Silva Coelho
8= 8. Luís Ribeiro Pais de Faria
9= 9. Maria Clara de Lima Pereira
10= 10. Diogo António Dantas Marrocos
11= 11. Maria da Piedade
12= 12. Manuel António
13= 13. Perpétua Margarida
14= 14. José António da Silva Coelho
15= 15. Francisca Luísa Alves
16= 16. André José Pais de Faria
17= 17. Inácia Luísa Ribeiro de Carvalho
18= 18. José Luís Pereira de Lima
19= 19. Maria Josefa Pereira
20= 20. António Lourenço Marrocos
21= 21. Rosa Clara
22= 22. António José de Abreu
23= 23. Mariana Francisca da Cunha
24= 24.
25= 25.
26= 26.
27= 27.
28= 28. Francisco Xavier da Silva Coelho
29= 29. Brízida da Fonseca or Brízida Maria Clara
30= 30. Silvestre Alves
31= 31. Eufémia Esteves

References

* "Fotobiografias do Século XX", Photobiography of Sidónio Pais, Círculo de Leitores.

Persondata
NAME=Pais, Sidónio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Portuguese president
DATE OF BIRTH=May 1, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH=Caminha, Portugal
DATE OF DEATH=December 14, 1918
PLACE OF DEATH=Lisbon, Portugal