António Maria Baptista
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António Maria Baptista Template:Post-nominals (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 5 January 1866[1] – 6 June 1920[2]) was a Portuguese military officer and politician.[3]
When he was lieutenant, he fought in Portuguese Mozambique, during the wars of pacification against the Vátuas, led by Gungunhana. He was promoted to colonel in 1917.[4] 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. He was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword on 3 June 1920.[5]
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- ↑ Pedro Figueiredo Leal, Manuel Baiôa: António Maria Baptista: O bejense que chefiou o Governo. In: Diario do Alentejo, March 11, 2020 (Portuguese).
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- 1866 births
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