António Teixeira de Sousa

Count António Teixeira de Sousa
Minister for the Navy and Overseas
In office 25 June 1900 – 28 February 1903
Monarch	Carlos I
Prime Minister	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Preceded by	Barros Gomes
Succeeded by	Manuel Rafael Gorjão
Minister for Finances
In office 28 February 1903 – 20 October 1904
Monarch	Carlos I
Prime Minister	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Preceded by	Fernando Matoso dos Santos
Succeeded by	Manuel Afonso Espregueira
Minister for Finances
In office 21 March 1906 – 19 May 1906
Monarch	Carlos I
Prime Minister	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Preceded by	José de Franco Frazão
Succeeded by	Ernesto Driesel Schroeter
54th Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 26 June 1910 – 5 October 1910
Monarch	Manuel II of Portugal
Preceded by	Francisco da Veiga Beirão
Succeeded by	Teófilo Braga (as President of the Provisional Government of the Portuguese Republic)
Personal details
Born	(1857-05-05)5 May 1857 Celeirós, Sabrosa, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	5 June 1917(1917-06-05) (aged 60) Celeirós, Sabrosa, Portuguese Republic
Political party	Regenerator Party
Occupation	Medical doctor Thermae doctor Writer

António Teixeira de Sousa, 2nd Count of Sousa Palmela (5 May 1857 in Celeirós, Sabrosa – 5 June 1917 in Celeirós, Sabrosa; Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu tɐjˈʃɐjɾɐ dɨ ˈsowzɐ]) was a Portuguese medical doctor and politician during the Constitutional Monarchy. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Porto, in 1883. A member of the conservative Regenerator Party, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies, in 1889. He was later minister of the Navy and Overseas (1900–1903), and, twice, of Finance (1903–1904, 1906). He became President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) on 26 June 1910, and would be the last Prime Minister of the Constitutional Monarchy as King D. Manuel II was overthrown by a republican revolution on 5 October 1910. He left politics after the republic proclamation, but showed a moderate support for the new regime.

Prime Ministers of the Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy
Palmela (1st) Linhares Saldanha (1st) José Jorge Loureiro Terceira (1st) Lumiares Valença Sá da Bandeira (1st) Dias de Oliveira Sá da Bandeira (2nd) Ribeira de Sabrosa Bonfim Joaquim António de Aguiar Palmela (2nd) Terceira (2nd) Palmela (3rd) Saldanha (2nd) Costa Cabral Terceira (3rd) Saldanha (3rd) Loulé Terceira (4th) Joaquim António de Aguiar (2nd) Loulé (2nd) Sá da Bandeira (3rd) Joaquim António de Aguiar (3rd) Ávila Sá da Bandeira (4th) Loulé (3rd) Saldanha (4th) Sá da Bandeira (5th) Ávila (2nd) Fontes Pereira de Melo Ávila (3rd) Fontes Pereira de Melo (2nd) Braamcamp Rodrigues Sampaio Fontes Pereira de Melo (3rd) Luciano de Castro Serpa Pimentel João Crisóstomo Dias Ferreira Hintze Ribeiro Luciano de Castro (2nd) Hintze Ribeiro (2nd) Luciano de Castro (3rd) Hintze Ribeiro (3rd) João Franco Ferreira do Amaral Campos Henriques Sousa Teles Venceslau de Lima Veiga Beirão Teixeira de Sousa
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