Manuel Quintão Meireles

Manuel Quintão Meireles
Born14 December 1880
Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Portugal
Died11 March 1962 (1962-03-12) (aged 81)
Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Occupation(s)Portuguese Navy officer and a politician

Manuel Carlos Quintão Meireles (14 December 1880 – 11 March 1962) was a Portuguese Navy admiral and politician.[1] He initially supported the Military Dictatorship, after the 28 May 1926 revolution, but later moved to the Democratic Opposition side.[2] In 1951, he was the moderate candidate at the presidential elections against the regime candidate, General Francisco Craveiro Lopes, but he withdrew from the race after it was revealed that the election ballots were printed on special paper that would allow the police to easily identify votes cast for the Liberal candidate.[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b "MANUEL MEIRELES OF PORTUGAL DIES; Admiral Was a Liberal Foe of the Salazar Regime". The New York Times. 1962-03-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  2. ^ Chilcote, Ronald H. (March 2012). The Portuguese Revolution: State and Class in the Transition to Democracy. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-7425-6793-1.
  3. ^ Opello, Walter C. Jr. (2019-07-09). Portugal: From Monarchy To Pluralist Democracy. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-30776-4.


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