António Teixeira de Sousa

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54th Prime Minister of Portugal
António Teixeira de Sousa

Minister for the Navy and Overseas
In office June 25, 1900 – February 28, 1903
Monarch	Carlos I of Portugal
Prime Minister	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Preceded by	Barros Gomes
Succeeded by	Manuel Rafael Gorjão
Minister for Finances
In office February 28, 1903 – October 20, 1904
Monarch	Carlos I of Portugal
Prime Minister	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Preceded by	Fernando Matoso dos Santos
Succeeded by	Manuel Afonso Espregueira
Minister for Finances
In office March 21, 1906 – May 19, 1906
Monarch	Carlos I of Portugal
Prime Minister	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Preceded by	José de Franco Frazão
Succeeded by	Ernesto Driesel Schroeter
In office June 26, 1910 – October 5, 1910
Monarch	Manuel II of Portugal
Preceded by	Francisco da Veiga Beirão
Succeeded by	Teófilo Braga (as President of the Provisional Government of the Portuguese Republic)

Born	May 5, 1857 Celeirós, Sabrosa, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	June 5, 1917 Celeirós, Sabrosa, Portuguese Republic
Political party	Regenerator Party
Occupation	Medical doctor Thermae doctor Writer

António Teixeira de Sousa (Celeirós, Sabrosa, 5 May 1857 - Celeirós, Sabrosa, 5 June 1917), pron. IPA: [ɐ̃'tɔniu tɐi'ʃɐiɾɐ dɨ 'so(ou)zɐ], was a Portuguese medical doctor and politician during the Constitutional Monarchy. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Porto, in 1883. A member of the conservative Regenerator Party, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies, in 1889. He was later minister of the Navy and Overseas (1900-1903), and, twice, of Finance (1903-1904, 1906). He became President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) on 26 June 1910, and would be the last Prime Minister of the Constitutional Monarchy as King D. Manuel II was overthrowned by a republican revolution on October 5, 1910. He left politics after the republic proclamation, but showed a moderate support for the new regime.

Preceded by Francisco da Veiga Beirão	Prime Minister of Portugal 1910	Succeeded by Teófilo Braga (interim, as President of the Provisional Government) João Chagas (effective)

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