Augusto de Vasconcelos

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Augusto de Vasconcelos
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office October 12, 1911 – January 9, 1913
Prime Minister	João Chagas (October 12, 1911–November 12, 1911) Himself (November 12, 1911–June 16, 1912) Duarte Leite (June 16, 1912–January 9, 1913)
Preceded by	João Chagas
Succeeded by	António Caetano Macieira Júnior
57th Prime Minister of Portugal (3rd of the Republic)
In office November 12, 1911 – June 16, 1912
President	Manuel de Arriaga
Preceded by	João Chagas
Succeeded by	Duarte Leite
Minister for Internal Affairs
In office September 23, 1912 – January 9, 1913
Prime Minister	Duarte Leite
Preceded by	Duarte Leite
Succeeded by	Rodrigo José Rodrigues
Born	September 25, 1867(1867-09-25) Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	September 27, 1951 (aged 84) Lisbon, Portuguese Republic
Political party	Portuguese Republican Party
Spouse	Hermínia Laura de Albuquerque Moreira
Children	Júlio, Maria Teresa, José Moreira, Maria Isabel
Occupation	Physician (surgeon) professor and diplomat

Augusto César de Almeida de Vasconcelos Correia (Lisbon, 25 September 1867 - Lisbon, 27 September 1951), better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos (pron. IPA: [au'guʃtu dɨ vaʃkõ'sɛluʃ]), was a Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat. He graduated at the Lisbon Medic-Cirurgical School, in 1891, were he also taught. A republican since his youth, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the first Constitutional Government of the 1st Republic, whose President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) was João Pinheiro Chagas. He succeeded Chagas as President of the Ministry of another Portuguese Republican Party government, who was in power, from 11 November 1911 to 4 June 1912. He was, after this, minister in Madrid (1913-1914) and London (1914-1919), during World War I, that Portugal entered, in 1916 on the Allies side. He was the leader of the Portuguese delegation at the Peace Conference, in Paris, in 1919. Since then he became at the service of the League of Nations. He helped to solve international conflicts, like the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay in 1935. He was the President of the League of Nations, from 1935 to 1937.

His father was a natural son of António César de Vasconcelos Correia, 1st Viscount and 1st Count de Torres Novas and 93rd Governor of India, thus being a second cousin once removed of Fernando Peyroteo and three times removed of José Couceiro.

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• Augusto de Vasconcelos's genealogy in a Portuguese genealogical site

Preceded by João Pinheiro Chagas

Prime Minister of Portugal (President of the Ministry) 1911–1912

Succeeded by Duarte Leite

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