Júlio de Lemos de Castro Caldas (19 November 1943 – 4 January 2020) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician.
Legal career
Castro Caldas was born on 19 November 1943, and raised in
Arcos de Valdevez
Arcos de Valdevez () is a concelho, municipality along the northern frontier of Portugal and Galicia (Spain), Galicia (Spain). The population in 2011 was 22,847,[University of Lisbon
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, and cofounded the CLA law firm alongside Correia Lopes and Mendes de Almeida. Castro Caldas was a founding member of the , as well as the Portuguese Society of Arbitration. He led the Portuguese Bar Association as president from 1993 to 1999, serving two terms.
Political career
Castro Caldas was elected to the
Assembly of the Republic from
Viana do Castelo District in 1980 and served until 1983, as a member of the
Social Democratic Party
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. He then served as
Minister of National Defence between 1999 and 2001. In November 2001, he began serving on the . Castro Caldas stepped down from the position in 2012. He died on 4 January 2020, aged 76, after seeking medical treatment for a stroke at the CUF Infante Santo Hospital in Lisbon.
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1943 births
2020 deaths
People from Arcos de Valdevez
Social Democratic Party (Portugal) politicians
Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
20th-century Portuguese politicians
21st-century Portuguese politicians
20th-century Portuguese lawyers
21st-century Portuguese lawyers
Ministers of National Defence of Portugal
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