Baltasar Rebelo de Sousa
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Baltasar Rebelo de Sousa GCIH |
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Baltasar Leite Rebelo de Sousa 16 April 1921 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 1 December 2001 (aged 80) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
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| Occupation | Politician and medicine professor |
Baltasar Leite Rebelo de Sousa, GCIH (Lisbon, Santos o Velho, April 16, 1921 – Lisbon, December 1, 2001) was a Portuguese politician and former Minister and Member of Parliament and medicine professor.
He was the only son of António Joaquim Rebelo de Sousa (Cabeceiras de Basto, Pedraça, Paço de Vides, April 8, 1860 – August 7, 1927), a landowner (already a widower of Rosa da Costa, whom he married in Angola and by whom he had five other sons António, Eduardo, Augusto, Álvaro and Óscar Rebelo de Sousa), and second wife Joaquina Leite da Silva, Gandarela, São Clemente, Celorico de Basto 1896? – April 16, 1975), daughter of Manuel Leite da Silva and wife and relative Deolinda Leite. His paternal grandparents were Manuel Joaquim Rebelo de Sousa, a trader, and wife Feliciana de Jesus, daughter of José Mendes de Magalhães and wife Teresa Dias do Nascimento de Jesus, who were also the parents of Baltasar Joaquim (born in 1859), Rosalinda do Nascimento, Bernardino Joaquim, Joaquim and Valentina do Nascimento Rebelo de Sousa.
He was a Licentiate in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
He started his career as a medical doctor.
He was a Subsecretary of State for Education and a National Comissar of the Mocidade Portuguesa. He then became Secretary of State and Minister, Minister of the Corporations and Health, Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic (Assembleia Nacional), Vice-President of the Overseas Council, Vice-President of the Acção Nacional Popular, Governor-General of Mozambique, from 1968 until 1970 and where he was still remembered with saudade more than thirty years after serving there, and finally the last Minister for the Overseas until the Carnation Revolution. In its aftermath he went to his Ministry where he stood most part of the day and communicate with the rest of the Portuguese Council of Ministers, who were seized in "Quartel do Carmo" (a military facility in Lisbon). He went to exile in Brazil.
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