José da Costa Campos (

Pangim Panaji (; also known as Panjim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary ...

, August 9, 1801 - June 7, 1862) was a military man and Portuguese colonial administrator. He was a member of the traditional Costa Campos Portuguese-Goan family, son of Hermenegildo da Costa Campos, field marshal of the

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, and Dona Mariana Águia Pereira de Lacerda, of Daman. He was the brother of Luís da Costa Campos, member of the Council of State Government of Portuguese India in 1855, and familiar to many rulers of this former Portuguese state. He formed the 19th Governing Council of

following the death of Manoel José Mendes, the Barão de Candal, in 1840. Soon after a revolt followed the disastrous government of , after a revolt, he formed the 20th Governing Council in 1842, along with and António Ramalho de Sá, the capitular vicar and the counselors José de Costa Campos and Caetano de Sousa e Vasconcelos, restoring order in the region until the arrival of the new governor, the Conde das Antas.

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Governors-General of Portuguese India Portuguese military personnel 1801 births 1862 deaths 19th-century Portuguese people {{Portugal-mil-bio-stub