José Vicente de Freitas

Colonel José Vicente de Freitas (around 1926)

José Vicente de Freitas [ ʒuˈzɛ viˈsẽtɯ dɯ ˈfɾɐi̯tɐʃ ] (born January 22, 1869 in Calheta ( Madeira ); † September 6, 1952 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese general , politician and prime minister .

Military career

After attending school, he embarked on a military career, during which he, among others, 1891 lieutenant and after its use in Flanders during the First World War in 1917 to lieutenant colonel was promoted and commander of a brigade.

As an officer he also worked as a cartographer . As such, he was the editor of a city map of Lisbon in 1910 . At the beginning of the military revolution on May 28, 1926, he was a colonel . After resigning as prime minister, he was promoted to general in 1929.

Political career

First World War and military dictatorship

Freitas began his political career in 1915 when he was appointed civil governor of the autonomous district of Funchal ( Madeira ). On April 28, 1918 he was elected member of the Republican Assembly (Assembleia da República) . There he represented the interests of Madeira. As such, he supported the efforts after the military revolution of May 28, 1926.

In the course of the military dictatorship , he became Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona on August 26, 1927 . He held this office until April 18, 1928, when he finally became President of the Ministry (Presidente do Ministério) and thus Prime Minister himself as successor to Carmona, who was elected President. During his term of office, which lasted until July 8, 1929, he continued to exercise the office of Minister of the Interior. From April 18 to 26, 1928, he was also Minister of Finance . He then handed the office over to António de Oliveira Salazar , who dominated politics for the next forty years. Later he was also Minister of Communications from January 11 to July 8, 1929, and from October 13 to 15, 1928, he was also Foreign Minister .

In 1928 he was also President of the Lisbon City Council. As such, he was one of the main ideologues of the National Union (União Nacional) , which he co-founded in 1930 and which was then the Unity Party from 1933 to 1974 .

Estado Novo (1933 to 1952)

After Salazar founded the New State (Estado Novo) , he lost the office of President of the City Council on February 12, 1933, after publicly criticizing Salazar for the fact that the dictator of the National Union, originally intended as an organization for all Portuguese, was practically a political one Party .

From 1935 to 1939 he was finally in the rank of general in command of the military academy.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Planta da cidade de Lisboa com os melhoramentos feitos e projectados: José Vicente de Freitas (circa 1910) - 20D ( Portuguese ) igeo.pt. Archived from the original on December 20, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2019.

predecessor	Office	successor
António Oscar de Fragoso Carmona	Prime Minister of Portugal 1928–1929	Artur Ivens Ferraz

personal data
SURNAME	Freitas, José Vicente de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese general, politician and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH	January 22, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Calheta ( Madeira )
DATE OF DEATH	September 6, 1952
Place of death	Lisbon

[1] Planta da cidade de Lisboa com os melhoramentos feitos e projectados: José Vicente de Freitas (circa 1910) - 20D ( Portuguese ) igeo.pt. Archived from the original on December 20, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2019.