Rodrigo José Rodrigues (26 July 1879 - 18 January 1963) was a military physician, colonial administrator and politician who held prominent roles during the

First Portuguese Republic The First Portuguese Republic ( pt, Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: ''República Portuguesa'', Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy ...

. He was Minister of the Interior (1913-1914), Civil Governor of the

District of Aveiro Aveiro District ( pt, Distrito de Aveiro, or ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. Aveiro District is bordered by the Po ...

and the

District of Porto The District of Porto ( pt, Distrito do Porto ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Br ...

Governor of Macau The governor of Macau ( pt, Governador de Macau; ) was a Portuguese colonial official who headed the colony of Macau, before 1623 called captain-major ( pt, Capitão-mor). The post was replaced on 20 December 1999 upon the transfer of sovere ...

(1922-1925) and

attaché In diplomacy, an attaché is a person who is assigned ("to be attached") to the diplomatic or administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency. Although a loanword from French, in English the word is not modified accor ...

of the Portuguese legation to the Society of Nations (1925-1927). Rodrigues was a physician in Cape Verde and Goa and a professor at the Goa Medical School before 1910. He participated in the Portuguese delegation of the Society of Nations from 1925 to 1927.

References

* * * {{authority control 1879 births 1963 deaths 20th-century Portuguese politicians People from Celorico de Basto Governors of Macau Portuguese colonial governors and administrators