Alfredo Nobre da Costa

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Audio file / audio sample Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa ? / i [ ˈnɔbɾɯ dɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ ] (born September 10, 1923inLapa, † February 4, 1996inLisbon) was aPortuguesepolitician andPrime Minister.

Nobre da Costa studied engineering in Lisbon and London . He then worked for many years as an employee and consulting engineer at Champalimaud Industrieholding, Portugal's second largest financial empire.

As an independent expert, but who was classified as center-left, he was appointed to the first cabinet of Mário Soares on March 25, 1977 as Minister for Industry and Technology. He held this office until December 9, 1977.

After Soares resigned, he was surprisingly appointed Prime Minister on August 28, 1978 by President António Ramalho Eanes and charged with leading a government until the end of the four-year term of the Republican Assembly (Assembleia da República) . However, he did not succeed in obtaining a parliamentary majority, so that he had to resign on November 22, 1978 and was replaced by Carlos Mota Pinto .

Nobre da Costa, a passionate bridge player , was president of the Portuguese bridge players federation, FPB, from 1966 to 1967. He married Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho in 1951, with whom he had a daughter and a son.

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  1. ↑ List of Presidents of the Portuguese Bridge Players Association (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Information about Alfredo Nobre da Costa in the Portuguese genealogy project Genea Portugal (fee required) (Portuguese)

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predecessor Office successor
Mario Soares Prime Minister of Portugal
1978 		Carlos Mota Pinto
personal data
SURNAME Nobre da Costa, Alfredo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nobre da Costa, Alfredo Jorge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese politician and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lapa, Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1996
Place of death Lisbon