Tomé de Barros Queirós

Tomé, José de Barros Queirós ( born February 2, 1872 in Ílhavo; † May 5, 1925 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese politician from the period of the First Republic. He was a deputy mayor, finance minister and finally prime minister of his country.

Life

Barros Queirós came from a modest, already came in early youth to Lisbon, and even began to work as a salesman as a child of eight years. Twenty years later he owned the company where he started as a child. He had the reputation of being one of the best merchants in Lisbon, and in 1911 was elected for the first time in the Portuguese Parliament, from 1912 to 1913 he was already Vice-President of the Parliament.

Barros Queiros was all his life a staunch Republican, he has appeared in 1888 in the Republican Party. When they finally announced after the overthrow of the monarchy in Portugal, belonged from 1911 to the Unionists of Brito Camacho, who had emerged from the fairly liberal - conservative wing of the Republican Party. Unionists and evolutionists united in 1919 to the Liberal Republicans, and it was for this party that Queirós Barros led the Portuguese Government. From 1923 he was a member of National Republican party, to which the various conservative parties of the country had united.

In 1908 he joined the Portuguese Ministry of Finance, where he held a number of important items. In the same year he also became mayor of Santa Justa, a district of Lisbon. From 1915 to 1916 he finally resigned as finance minister for the first time in the Portuguese Government. On May 23, 1921, he became Prime Minister. His short reign was marked by financial problems. To compensate for the dramatic imbalance of the budget, Afonso Costa had promised to give Portugal in the U.S. a credit of 50 million U.S. dollars. After this credit, however, did not materialize, the whole government fell into disrepute, so that Barros had already Queirós on August 30, 1921 Leave his office to his party colleague António Granjo.