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Alfredo Nobre da Costa

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Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Prime Minister of Portugal
In office
29 August 1978[1] – 22 November 1978
PresidentAntónio Ramalho Eanes
Preceded byMário Soares
Succeeded byCarlos Mota Pinto
Minister of Industry and Technology
In office
25 March 1977 – 30 January 1978
Prime MinisterMário Soares
Preceded byAntónio Sousa Gomes
Succeeded byCarlos Melancia
Secretary of State for Heavy Industry
In office
14 January 1976 – 23 July 1976
Prime MinisterJosé Pinheiro de Azevedo
Preceded byMário Cardoso dos Santos
Succeeded byCarlos Melancia
Personal details
Born(1923-09-10)10 September 1923
Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal
Died1 April 1996(1996-04-01) (aged 72)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyIndependent
SpouseMaria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama

Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, GCC, ComC, OMRI (10 September 1923 – 1 April 1996), commonly known as Nobre da Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈnɔβɾɨ ðɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ]), was a Portuguese engineer and politician who briefly served as prime minister of Portugal from August to November 1978.

A moderate independent center-left politician, he was appointed by President António Ramalho Eanes to serve as prime minister that would finish the four-year legislative term which had been initiated in the 1976 Portuguese legislative election. His cabinet consisted of independents. However, it failed to gain a majority in the Assembly of the Republic, and Nobre da Costa resigned. He was replaced by Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto.

Early life

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He was the only son of Alfredo Henrique Andresen da Costa (born 4 November 1893), who was Portuguese of Italian, French, Danish and Goan ancestry, and Maria Helena Nobre.

He graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico.

Personal life

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He married Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama on 5 May 1951 and had a single daughter, Vera Maria Nobre da Costa (born 5 February 1952). He died in 1996 after a long illness. At the time of his death he held the position of chairman at the engineering firm EFACEC.[2]

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ Meisler, Stanley (30 August 1978). "Portugal Gets Self-Effacing Premier". Los Angeles Times. p. I-5. Alfredo Nobre da Costa, who was sworn in Tuesday as the new premier of Portugal, likes to emphasize that...
  2. ^ "Former Prime Minister Nobre da Costa Dead at 73". Associated Press. 1 April 1996. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Portugal
1978
Succeeded by