Joaquim António de Aguiar

Joaquim António de Aguiar ( born August 24, 1792 in Coimbra, † May 26, 1884 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese politician during the period of the Portuguese monarchy, leader of the Cartisten and later regeneration of the party. He was a total of three times ( 1841-1842, 1860 and 1865-1868 ) Head of government of Portugal.

Life

Joaquim António de Aguiar was born on 24 August 1792 in Coimbra in poverty. In his youth, he took part in the liberation struggle against Napoleon. He then studied law at the University of Coimbra, where he received his doctorate in 1815 and then took a position at the university. Because of his liberal ideas lost de Aguiar 1823, when the heir apparent Michael staged a coup with his mother against the king, his job and feared for his life. He eventually fled to Porto. After the end of the revolt of the conservatives and after King John VI. had his son was forced into exile, de Aguiar returned to Coimbra, where he was elected in 1823 as a deputy for the province of Beira in the Cortes. 1828, when Michael then came to the throne, de Aguiar initially fled to Porto, then into exile in London.

In exile held de Aguiar close contact with the leaders of the constitutionalists, Saldanha and Palmela. He went to the Azores, and from there he took part in the expedition of the constitutionalists in part to recapture the Portuguese throne ( cf. Miguelistenkrieg ). He joined in 1833 for the first time in the government, became Minister of Justice in 1834, a post he held until the death of King Peter IV retained. In 1836 he was again Minister of Justice. The government, of which he was leaning, as the Setembristen on September 9, 1836 seized power. The new setembristische government offered him the post of Judge at the Supreme Court, which Aguiar but refused to protest the suspension of the Constitutional Charter. 1841 the movement of Setembristen was then already very weak. The last purely setembristische government was ceded in 1840, the government of the Count of Bonfim, already often had to yield to the influence of Cartisten, embodied particularly in the person of the Minister of Justice Costa Cabral.

1841 resigned the Earl of Bomfim and de Aguiar was first prime minister of his country. Formally, these were the last setembristische Government of Portugal, de facto still growing the already strong influence of Cartisten with the government takeover de Aguiar. With the takeover Costa Cabral's the first government de Aguiar ended. Aguiar was sitting on in the Cortes, where he stood as an MP in opposition to Costa Cabral. As Costa Cabral crashed on the uprising of Maria de Fontes de Aguiar was in the short-lived government of the Duke of Palmela Minister of Justice. 1860 Aguiar was again for three months head of government, then again from 1865 to 1868. During this time he managed to lead a grand coalition of the two major Portuguese parties, the regeneration Party and the Party History. Against this government there was, however, some resistance in the population, particularly missed the lack of opposition. In January 1868 there were violent demonstrations against the government Aguiar in Lisbon, which the government eventually crash. De Aguiar retired to private life and died in 1884 in Lisbon.

See also: History of Portugal, Chronology Portugal

• Prime Minister (Portugal )
• Born in 1792
• Died in 1884
• Person (Coimbra )
• Man