Manuel Alfredo Tito de Morais (28 June 1910 in

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– 14 December 1999), was a

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Background

He was the eldest child and son of Tito Augusto de Morais (

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, 11 February 1880 - 1963), a

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of the

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and a Minister, and wife (m. 2 June 1909) Carolina de Antas de Loureiro de Macedo (8 July 1881 - ?), sister in law of Augusto de Paiva Bobela da Mota, 116th (Provisional)

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in 1919 and great-great-granddaughter in female line of the 1st

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of São José de Porto Alegre, a rich merchant from

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Career

He graduated as a Licentiate in

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from

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(

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). In 1945, with the end of

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and the beginning of new democratic movements, he was a Member of the Central Commission of the Movimento de Unidade Democrática (MUD). However, due to the political conditionments of the Estado Novo, he was forced to exile in the Portuguese overseas territory of Angola, where two of his sons were born in the 1950s,

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, where

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and other resistant elements, many of whom Socialists as him, were already living and where another son was born in the 1960s,

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and

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. In Algeria he was the Director of the Junta de Salvação Nacional and, in

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in 1964, he founded the Associação Socialista Portuguesa (ASP), which later originated the

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(PS) in 1973, of which he was also one of the Founders and a Militant. After the

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and the legalization of his Party, he became a

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to the Constituent Assembly in 1975 and a Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic in the following year of 1976. Between May 1979 and April 1980 he held the office of

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of the Parliamentary Assembly of the

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. He occupied the office of Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic between 8 February 1978 and 29 October 1978 and again from 22 October 1981 and 30 May 1983, and was its 6th

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from 8 June 1983 to 24 October 1984. In these last functions he also became a Member of the

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. In the 6th Congress of PS he became its Secretary-General between 1986 and 1988.

Family

He married firstly Maria da Conceição Formosinho Mealha (

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, Silves, 1912 -

, 1992), daughter of João Vitorino Mealha, a

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(whose mother's paternal grandfather was famous

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and

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), and wife Maria Julieta da Guerra Formosinho, whom he divorced, and had five children: * Maria Carolina Mealha Tito de Morais, married to Augusto Manuel Rodrigues Correia Pereira de Oliveira (

, 30 April 1932 -

, 1 August 1984), and had issue * Maria da Conceição Mealha Tito de Morais, married to Vítor Manuel Correia Pires, and had issue * João Manuel Mealha Tito de Morais (

, 1939 -

, 25 November 2001), married firstly to Geny de Almeida, and had issue, and married secondly to Lúcia de Melo, without issue: ** Marcelo Augusto Tito de Morais *** Marcos Augusto Alves Tito de Morais *** Marcelo Stéfano Alves Tito de Morais *** Matheus Meirelles Itajahy Tito de Morais *** Lucas Meirelles Itajahy Tito de Morais ** João Luís Tito de Morais *** Gabriela Romeiro Tito de Morais * Maria Luísa Mealha Tito de Morais (b.

, 19 August 1942), married firstly as his second wife to Pedro Manuel Ramos de Almeida, whom she divorced, and had issue, and married secondly to Dulcínio Caiano Pereira, without issue * Maria Teresa Mealha Tito de Morais (b. 1945), married to Jaime Teixeira Mendes (b. 1943), a

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, and had issue He married secondly Maria Emília Adelaide Pedroso da Cunha Rego Monteiro dos Santos (

, São Sebastião da Pedreira, 2 May 1923), of some maternal Nobility, and had three children: * Manuel Tito de Morais (

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, 2 October 1953), unmarried and without issue * Luís Manuel Tito de Morais (

, 20 October 1955), married to Anne Huguette Bertrand, French, and had issue: ** Claire Bertrand Tito de Morais ** Marine Bertrand Tito de Morais * Pedro Manuel Tito de Morais (

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, 24 August 1964), unmarried and without issue

References

* ''Os Presidentes do Parlamento'' (''Presidents of the Portuguese Parliament''), Assembly of the Republic {{DEFAULTSORT:Morais, Manuel Tito 1910 births 1999 deaths People from Lisbon Portuguese anti-fascists Presidents of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal) Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians