Gomes da Costa

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**Manuel Gomes da Costa**

President of Portugal
Order:	10th (2nd since the 1926 revolution)
Term of Office	June 19, 1926 - July 9, 1926
Predecessor:	José Mendes Cabeçadas
Successor:	António Óscar Carmona
Prime Minister of Portugal
Order:	96th (42nd of the Republic, 2nd since the 1926 revolution)
Term of Office	June 19, 1926 - July 9, 1926
Predecessor:	José Mendes Cabeçadas
Successor:	António Óscar Carmona
Date of Birth	January 14, 1863
Place of Birth:	Lisbon
Date of Death	December 17, 1929
Place of Death:	Lisbon
Wife:	Henriqueta Mira Godinho
Occupation:	Military officer (General, posthumously Marshal)
Political Party:	Independent

Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa (pron. IPA [mɐnu'ɛɫ 'gomɨʃ dɐ 'kɔʃtɐ]), or just Gomes da Costa, (Lisbon, January 14, 1863-Lisbon, December 17, 1929), was a Portuguese army officer and politician, tenth President of the Portuguese Republic and the second of the Military dictatorship.

He began his military career by joining Colégio Militar at age 10. As a military he stood out in campaigns of pacification of the colonies in Africa and India, and also during the First World War (See: Portugal in the Great War). As a politician he was the person chosen by the right wing revolutionaries to leader the 28 May coup d'état in Braga (after the death of General Alves Roçadas that was already chosen).

After the success of the revolution he didn't assume power at first, being the posts of President of the Republic and President of the Counsil of Ministers (Prime Minister) being trusted to José Mendes Cabeçadas, the leader of the revolution in Lisbon. Soon the revolutionaries disliked Mendes Cabeçadas' attitude (that tried an approach to the late Portuguese First Republic) and he was replaced by Gomes da Costa in both posts in a meeting in Sacavém in June 17, 1926. However his government lasted near the same time as Cabeçadas' because on July 9 of the same year a new revolution led by Óscar Carmona overthrew Gomes da Costa, incapable of leading with governative duties.

Carmona, already President of the Republic and of the Council of Ministers, sent him to exile in the Azores Islands, and made him a Marshal of the Portuguese Army. On September 1927, he returned to mainland Portugal, where he died in miserable conditions, alone and poor.

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Preceded by José Mendes Cabeçadas	President and Prime Minister of Portugal 1926	Succeeded by António Óscar Carmona

Presidents of Portugal
First Republic Manuel de Arriaga \| Teófilo Braga \| Bernardino Machado \| Sidónio Pais \| Canto e Castro \| António José de Almeida \| Teixeira Gomes \| Bernardino Machado Second Republic Mendes Cabeçadas \| Gomes da Costa \| Óscar Carmona \| Oliveira Salazar \| Craveiro Lopes \| Américo Thomaz Third Republic National Salvation Junta \| António de Spínola \| Costa Gomes \| Ramalho Eanes \| Mário Soares \| Jorge Sampaio \| Cavaco Silva

Presidents of Portugal

Prime Ministers of Portugal during the Second Republic (Ditadura Nacional 1926-1933 and Estado Novo 1933-1974)
Mendes Cabeçadas - Gomes da Costa - Óscar Carmona - Vicente de Freitas - Ivens Ferraz - Domingos Oliveira - Oliveira Salazar - Marcello Caetano

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Persondata
NAME	Gomes da Costa, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Manuel de (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	President of Portugal
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lisbon, Portugal
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1929
PLACE OF DEATH	Lisbon, Portugal