José Relvas


José Maria de Mascarenhas Relvas de Campos (Golegã, Golegã, March 5, 1858 – Alpiarça, Casa dos Patudos, October 31, 1929;, was a Portuguese politician and 70th Prime Minister of Portugal.

Political career

An historic republican, it was he who proclaimed the republic from the balcony of the Municipal Chamber of Lisbon, on 5 October 1910. He was the second Minister of Finance during the provisional government led by Teófilo Braga, from 12 October 1910 to 3 September 1911.
After that, he served as ambassador of Portugal in Madrid, from 1911 to 1914. He was President of the Ministry, from 27 January to 30 March 1919, in one of the many short-lived governments of the Portuguese First Republic. His house in Alpiarça is now a museum, the Casa dos Patudos, where his art collection is exhibited.

Family

He was the son of Carlos Augusto Mascarenhas Relvas de Campos, fidalgo of the Royal Household, and his wife, Margarida Amélia Mendes de Azevedo e Vasconcelos, daughter of the 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Podentes, grand-niece of the 1st Viscount of Tavira, great-granddaughter of the 1st Baroness of Silva, and the representative of these titles.
Despite the fact that he was also the representative of the titles and potentially one of the most titled men of the liberal monarchy, he was always a republican.
He was married to Eugénia de Loureiro de Queirós do Couto Leitão, daughter of Luís de Loureiro de Queirós Cardoso do Couto Leitão, 1st Viscount de Loureiro, and son of the 1st Barons de Prime, and his wife, Antónia da Silva Mendes, and they had three children: Carlos, João, and Maria Luísa.