Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro, 10th Count of Pimenta de Castro (
PiresPires is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It was originally a patronymic, meaning Son of Pedro or Son of Pero . Its Spanish equivalent is Pérez. It is a variant form of Peres. It may mean different things:-People:*A. M...
,
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, 5 November 1836 -
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, 14 May 1918; ʒuɐˈkĩ piˈmẽtɐ dɨ ˈkaʃtɾu) was a
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army officer and politician. He was a career military officer reaching the position of General, also graduated in Mathematics by the
University of Coimbra. In 1908, he was nominated commander of the 3rd Military Region, in
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. After the proclamation of the Republic on October 5, 1910, he was Minister of War, for only two months, in 1911. He had to resign due to the monarchist incursion of Henrique de Paiva Couceiro. An independent, he was chosen by President
Manuel de ArriagaManuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue was a Portuguese lawyer, the first Attorney-General and the first elected President of the First Portuguese Republic, following the abdication of King Manuel II of Portugal and a Republican Provisional Government headed by Teófilo Braga Manuel...
to be the
President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) of a government, who would rule without the parliament, where the
Portuguese Republican PartyThe Portuguese Republican Party was a Portuguese political party formed during the late years of monarchy that proposed and conducted the substitution of the Constitutional Monarchy by the Portuguese First Republic....
, led by
Afonso CostaAfonso Augusto da Costa, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese lawyer, professor, and republican politician.-Political career:Costa was the leader of the Portuguese Republican Party, and he was one of the major figures of the Portuguese First Republic. He was a republican deputy in the Chamber of Deputies...
had the majority. His government, with the support of the moderate Evolutionist Republican Party and the
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, and also conservative military factions, was in office from 28 January to 14 May 1915. It was overthrown by the military movement of 14 May 1915, supported by the Republican Party, which also caused the resignation of President Manuel de Arriaga.