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Manuel António Lino
Manuel António Lino (4 January 1865, in Angra do Heroísmo – 15 June 1927, in Angra do Heroísmo) was a physician, politician, poet and dramatist, who became Civil Governor of the Horta (district), District of Horta, Portugal in 1906. Early life Manuel António Lino was born in the city of Angra, son of Manuel António Lino (Sr.) and Maria Laureana do Carmo Soares, both natives of the island of Pico. Career In 1889, he was invited by the Junta Geral of Angra to participate in a foreign study on the setup and operation of disinfection posts. During this occasion he was in the city of Porto, where he was studying the spread of the bubonic plague. A distinguished student, he completed his education in medicine at the University of Coimbra on 30 July 1892. He turned-down an invitation to teach in the faculty of Medicine in Coimbra, and returned to Terceira, where he opened his own general practice and ophthalmology specialization. A municipal doctor in Praia da Vitória (1895 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Government
In Portugal, the Civil Governments (, singular ') are the bodies of public administration that represent the Government of Portugal, central government at the Districts of Portugal, district level. Each Civil Government is headed by an ''administrative magistrate'' (delegate of the central government), the civil governor (, plural '), appointed by the Council of Ministers (Portugal), Council of Ministers, and under the remit of the Ministry of Internal Administration (Portugal), Ministry of Internal Administration. The role of Civil Governments has become smaller since their creation in 1835. At first, they had broad powers of representation of the central government and the responsibility to coordinate all state services within the district; currently, they serve as, in practice, local delegations of the Ministry of Internal Administration, charged with issuing passports, public safety, and electoral procedure. In 2011, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho ''de facto'' abolished a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
