António Maria Baptista
Portuguese politician
Died when: 54 years 153 days (653 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
António Maria Baptista GCTE (Portuguese pronunciation: [?~'t?ni.u m?'?i.?ßa'ti?t?]; 5 January 1866 – 6 June 1920) was a Portuguese military officer and politician.
When he was lieutenant, he fought in Portuguese Mozambique, during the wars of pacification against the , led by Gungunhana.He was promoted to colonel in 1917.
He fought the monarchist uprising of 1919, and was nominated Minister of War in the same year.He, then, distinguished himself during a series of violent strikes, and a year later was nominated and became President of the Ministry (Prime Minister), on 8 March 1920.
He died suddenly while in office, after a Council of Ministers reunion, on 6 June 1920.He was posthumously promoted to general and was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.
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