Augusto de Vasconcelos

Infobox Officeholder
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name =Augusto de Vasconcelos
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order =
office =Minister for Foreign Affairs
term_start =October 12, 1911
term_end =January 9, 1913
monarch =
primeminister =João Chagas (October 12, 1911–November 12, 1911)
Himself (November 12, 1911–June 16, 1912)
Duarte Leite (June 16, 1912–January 9, 1913)
predecessor =João Chagas
successor =António Caetano Macieira Júnior

order2 =57th Prime Minister of Portugal
(3rd of the Republic)
office2 =
term_start2 =November 12, 1911
term_end2 =June 16, 1912
monarch2 =
president2 =Manuel de Arriaga
predecessor2 =João Chagas
successor2 =Duarte Leite

order3 =
office3 =Minister for Internal Affairs
term_start3 =September 23, 1912
term_end3 =January 9, 1913
monarch3 =
primeminister3 =Duarte Leite
predecessor3 =Duarte Leite
successor3 =Rodrigo José Rodrigues

birth_date =birth date|1867|9|25|mf=y
birth_place =flagicon|Portugal|1830 Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
death_date =death date and age|1951|9|27|1867|9|25|mf=y
death_place =flagicon|Portugal Lisbon, Portuguese Republic
party =Portuguese Republican Party
spouse =Hermínia Laura de Albuquerque Moreira
relations =
children =Júlio, Maria Teresa, José Moreira, Maria Isabel
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occupation =Physician (surgeon)
professor
and diplomat
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Augusto César de Almeida de Vasconcelos Correia, GCSE (Lisbon, Santos o Velho, September 24, 1867 - Lisbon, Santa Catarina, September 27, 1951), better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos (pron. IPA2|au'guʃtu dɨ vaʃkõ'sɛluʃ), was a Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat.

Career

He graduated at the Lisbon Medic-Cirurgical School, in 1891, were he also taught, later becoming a Cathedratic Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.

A Republican since his youth, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the first Constitutional Government of the 1st Republic, whose President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) was João Pinheiro Chagas, from October 12, 1911 to November 12, 1911. He succeeded Chagas as 83rd Prime-Minister or President of the Ministry or Council of Ministers of another Portuguese Republican Party government, who was in power, from November 11, 1911 to June 4, 1912, in which he also became Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 12, 1911 to June 16, 1912, office he held later again from June 16, 1912 to January 9, 1913.

He was, after this, Plenipotenciary Minister in Madrid (1913-1914) and London (1914-1919), during World War I, that Portugal entered, in 1916 on the Allies side. He was the Leader of the Portuguese delegation at the Peace Conference, in Paris, in 1919. Since then he became at the service of the League of Nations as a Delegate of Portugal. He helped to solve international conflicts, like the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay in 1935. He was the President of the League of Nations, from 1935 to 1937.

Decorations

He received the Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint James of the Sword, the Order of Isabel the Catholic, the Order of the Crown of Belgium and both the Orders of Merit of Chile and Peru and was Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur of France, etc.

Family

He was a son of Júlio César de Vasconcelos Correia (Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho or Santa Catarina, December 21, 1837 – Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho, December 31, 1910), an Engineer and a Shipbuilder, and wife (m. Lisbon, Encarnação) Constança Libânia Auta de Almeida (Lisbon, Santos o Velho, c. 1840 – Lisbon, Santos-o-Velho, March 13, 1926). His father was a natural son of António César de Vasconcelos Correia, 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Torres Novas and 93rd Governor-General of India, thus being a second cousin once removed of Fernando Peyroteo and three times removed of José Couceiro.

He married in Lisbon, Santa Catarina, Hermínia Laura de Albuquerque Henriques Moreira (Castelo Branco, Sé, September 2, 1869 – Lisbon, Santa Catarina, September 28, 1947), widow of Augusto Pereira Leite and daugther of José Joaquim Henriques Moreira (Lisbon, Alcântara, April 29, 1820 – January 6, 1895), Division General, Commander of the Municipal Guard, Commander of the Order of Aviz and Knight of the Order of the Tower and Sword, etc, and wife (m. November 7, 1868) Maria Hermínia de Albuquerque de Mesquita e Paiva (October 15, 1844 – June 7, 1910), daughter of the 2nd Viscount (formerly Barons) of Oleiros, and had:
* Júlio Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. July 15, 1906), a medical doctor, unmarried and without issue
* Maria Teresa Moreira de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
* José Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. May 28, 1910), an engineer, married to Maria Gabriela de Sampaio e Melo, and had issue:
** Maria de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
** José Maria de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
** Maria Isabel de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, unmarried and without issue
** Augusto António de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to Maria Helena do Patrocínio Nogueira
** Maria José de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to José Afonso de Almada Negreiros (b. 1934), son of José Sobral de Almada Negreiros and wife Sarah Afonso
** Maria Micaela de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to politician Raúl Miguel de Oliveira Rosado Fernandes
** Maria Teresa de Sampaio e Melo de Vasconcelos, married to José Maria da Fonseca Caldeira Cabral (b. Lisbon, 1942)
* Maria Isabel Moreira de Vasconcelos (b. November 3, 1911), married to Pedro de Sárrea Mascarenhas Gaivão (b. October 20, 1907), without issue

External links

* [http://www.geneall.net/P/per_page.php?id=143813 Augusto de Vasconcelos's genealogy in a Portuguese genealogical site]