João Pinheiro Chagas

José Pinheiro Chagas ( born September 1, 1863 in Rio de Janeiro, † May 28, 1925 in Estoril ) was a Portuguese journalist and politician of the Portuguese Republican Party from the final phase of the Portuguese monarchy and the First Republic. He was in 1911 for two months, Prime Minister of Portugal.

Life

Chagas was born of Portuguese parents child in the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro. Shortly after his birth, his family returned back to Portugal.

Since 1887, smoldered between Portugal and the UK, a dispute over conflicting Kolnialansprüche in southern Africa (see British- Portuguese colonial crisis). At the height of the crisis in 1890, the royal Portuguese government had to give after a British ultimatum to all claims. The case outcropping obvious weakness of Portugal and his government, and thus also of the Portuguese monarchy Chargas made ​​a fervent Republican, he joined the Republican Party.

During the monarchy Chargas worked primarily as a journalist, wrote for the newspapers O primeiro de Janeiro, O Tempo and O Dia, later he founded the newspaper República Portuguesa and was editor of the newspaper O País.

When the Republicans were subjected 1906-1908 especially sharp persecution, he was one of the fiercest opponents of the authoritarian government of João Franco. He was exiled to Angola, but managed to flee to Brazil.

After the abolition of the monarchy on 5 October 1910, he goes as an envoy to the embassy of his country to Paris. After the fall of the monarchy in Portugal had first established a provisional government took power under Teófilo Braga, Braga led here from both the functions of a head of state as well as a head of state. He organized elections for a Constituent Assembly, they drew up a republican constitution, which was adopted in 1911. The constitution provided for a bicameral parliament and a parliamentary government and a president elected by Parliament. With the adoption of the Constitution ended the period of office of the Provisional Government, the newly elected parliament chose Chagas as Prime Minister, he was on September 4, 1911 first constitutional prime minister of the new republic. The government Chagas held just two months, already on 13 November of the same year he had passed on to his successor the Office. On May 17, 1915, he was re-elected Prime Minister, however, did not occur at the post. Chagas then served until his retirement in the diplomatic service of his country.

• Prime Minister (Portugal )
• Journalist (Portugal )
• Of the Order of St. James of the Sword ( Grand Cross )
• Portuguese
• Born in 1863
• Died in 1925
• Man