Tomé José de Barros Queirós
Tomé José de Barros Queirós (born February 2, 1872 in Ílhavo , † May 5, 1925 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese politician from the time of the First Republic . He was a member of parliament , mayor , finance minister and finally head of government of his country.
Life
Barros Queirós came from a humble background, came to Lisbon at an early age and began working as a salesman as a child at the age of eight. Twenty years later, he owned the company where he had started as a child. He had a reputation for being one of the best merchants in Lisbon and was elected to the Portuguese parliament for the first time in 1911, and from 1912–1913 he was already vice-president of the parliament.
Barros Queiros was a staunch Republican all his life ; he joined the Republican Party in 1888 . When this finally split after the fall of the monarchy in Portugal , from 1911 he belonged to the unionists of Brito Camacho , who had emerged from the right-wing, conservative wing of the Republicans. Unionists and evolutionists united to form the Liberal Republicans in 1919 and it was for this party that Barros Queirós eventually led the Portuguese government. From 1923 he was a member of the Republican Nationalist Party , to which the various conservative parties in the country had united.
As early as 1908 he joined the Portuguese Ministry of Finance, where he held a number of important posts. In the same year he also became mayor of Santa Justa , a district of Lisbon. From 1915 to 1916 he finally entered the Portuguese government for the first time as Minister of Finance. On May 23, 1921 he became Prime Minister. His brief reign was marked by financial problems. To compensate for the dramatic imbalance of the budget, had Afonso Costa promised Portugal in the United States a loan of 50 million US dollars to gain. After this loan did not materialize, however, the entire government fell into disrepute, so that Barros Queirós had to give up his position on August 30, 1921, to his party friend António Granjo .
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Bernardino Machado |
Prime Minister of Portugal 1921 |
António Joaquim Granjo |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Queirós, Tomé José de Barros |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ílhavo , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1925 |
| Place of death | Lisbon , Portugal |