José Maria de Mascarenhas Relvas de Campos ( Golegã, Golegã, 5 March 1858 – Alpiarça, Casa dos Patudos, 31 October 1929; , was a Portuguese politician and 70th

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. = Personal life = Jose was in spouse with Eugénia de Loureiro Queirós Couto Leitão. He has three children Carlos, João and Maria Luísa.

Political career

An historic republican, it was he who proclaimed the republic from the balcony of the Municipal Chamber of

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, on 5 October 1910. He was the second Minister of Finance during the provisional government led by Teófilo Braga, from 12 October 1910 to 3 September 1911. After that, he served as

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of Portugal in Madrid, from 1911 to 1914. He was President of the Ministry (103rd Prime Minister), from 27 January to 30 March 1919, in one of the many short-lived governments of the Portuguese First Republic. His house in Alpiarça is now a museum, the Casa dos Patudos, where his art collection is exhibited.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Relvas, Jose 1858 births 1929 deaths People from Golegã People from Alpiarça Portuguese Republican Party politicians Democratic Party (Portugal) politicians Prime Ministers of Portugal Finance ministers of Portugal 19th-century Portuguese people Ambassadors of Portugal to Spain Portuguese revolutionaries