Jorge Sampaio
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His Excellency Jorge Sampaio GColTE GCIH GColL |
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| 18th President of Portugal | |
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In office 9 March 1996 – 9 March 2006 |
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| Prime Minister |
António Guterres José Manuel Barroso Pedro Santana Lopes José Sócrates |
| Preceded by | Mário Soares |
| Succeeded by | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations | |
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In office 1 April 2007 – 1 March 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser |
| Mayor of Lisbon | |
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In office 22 January 1990 – 15 November 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Nuno Krus Abecassis |
| Succeeded by | João Soares |
| Secretary-General of the Socialist Party | |
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In office 15 January 1989 – 23 February 1992 |
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| President | João Ferraz de Abreu |
| Preceded by | Vítor Constâncio |
| Succeeded by | António Guterres |
| Personal details | |
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Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio 18 September 1939 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Maria José Rodrigues Ritta |
| Children | Vera Ritta de Sampaio André Ritta de Sampaio |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
| Profession | Lawyer |
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Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, GColTE, GCIH, GColL (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒɔɾʒ(ɨ) sɐ̃ˈpaju]) (born 18 September 1939) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who was the 18th President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006.
Sampaio was born in Lisbon on 18 September 1939. The Sampaio family lived abroad in the United States and the United Kingdom for some years, due to the professional activity of his father Arnaldo de Sampaio (1908–1984), a medical doctor. His mother was Fernanda Bensaúde Branco (1908 – 15 February 2000). His maternal grandmother Sara Bensliman Bensaúde, who died in 1976, was a Sephardi Jew from Morocco of Portuguese origin, and his maternal grandfather Fernando Branco (1880–1940) was a naval officer of the Portuguese Navy and later the Foreign Minister of Portugal; Sampaio himself is agnostic, and does not consider himself a Jew. He started his political career as college student of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Jorge Sampaio was involved in the student contestation against the fascist regime and was leader of the Lisbon students union between 1960 and 1961. Following his graduation in 1961, Jorge Sampaio started a notable career as a lawyer, often involved in the defence of many political prisoners.
His brother is the teenage-psychiatrist and writer Daniel Sampaio.
He married firstly a medical doctor named Karin Schmidt Dias, daughter of António Jorge Dias (Porto, 31 July 1907 – Lisbon, 5 February 1973) and his German wife, Margot Schmidt. The couple had no issue and later divorced. He married secondly Maria José Rodrigues Ritta (b. Lisbon, 19 December 1941), daughter of José António Ritta and wife Maria José Rodrigues Xavier and sister of Maria Ermelinda and José António, by whom he had two children: Vera Ritta de Sampaio (b. 1977) and André Ritta de Sampaio (b. 1981).
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