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of the First Republic. Also, he was instrumental in the passage of many progressive laws, such as those concerning divorce, family relations, civil registry of marriage, leases of property, judicial reorganization, industrial accidents and censorship of the press.
480:. This term of office (which he combined with the role of Finance Minister) lasted from 9 January 1913 to 9 February 1914. He returned to power, as Prime Minister and Finance Minister, from 29 November 1915 to 16 March 1916. 437:
During this period, Costa signed the controversial laws which expelled the Jesuits from Portugal, abolished all the religious orders and established the separation of church and state. These things made him a symbol of the
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and Ana Augusta Pereira, recognized him and his brother and sister. They married and readopted the children. Costa re-assumed his birth name in order to conceal the circumstances of his birth.
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in December 1917, Costa went into exile in Paris and though he did sometimes return briefly to Portugal, he never again lived there, even after Pais's assassination in 1918.
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Together with his older brother and sister, he was registered as a son of unknown parents with the name Afonso Maria de Ligório. Ten years later, his parents,
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Following more political instability Costa was yet again Prime Minister, from 25 April 1917 to 8 December 1917, in a national-unity government nicknamed the
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On a number of other occasions during the First Republic, Costa received invitations to head the government again but he always refused. After the
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Leal, Ernesto Castro. "Parties and political identity: the construction of the party system of the Portuguese Republic (1910-1926)."
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and James Floy, Carlton & Phillips, 1854, v. 4, p. 292. (Original from Harvard University, digitized March 1, 2007.
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of 28 June 1919 on behalf of Portugal. He was the Portuguese representative at the first assembly of the
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Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of Valour, Loyalty and Merit
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After the end of the war, Costa led the Portuguese delegation to the
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Wheeler, Douglas L. "The Portuguese revolution of 1910."
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Costa's wife is an ancestor of the modern-day actresses,
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three times. The first time, he was called by President
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On 10 July 1919 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the
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Index

Afonso Costa (rower)
GCTE
GCL

Prime Minister of Portugal
Bernardino Machado
António José de Almeida
Revolutionary Junta
Bernardino Machado
José de Castro
António José de Almeida
Manuel de Arriaga
Duarte Leite
Bernardino Machado
Seia
Portuguese Republican
Democratic
Alzira de Barros Abreu
Catarina Wallenstein
Alma mater
University of Coimbra

GCTE
GCL
[ɐˈfõsuˈkɔʃtɐ]
Seia
Portuguese
republican
Portuguese Republican Party
Portuguese First Republic

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