27-MAY-1860 :- Birth Of Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal.

Manuel Teixeira Gomes
( May 27, 1860 – October 18, 1941) was a Portuguese politician and writer. He served as the seventh President of Portugal between October 5, 1923 and December 11, 1925.

A devout republican, he collaborated with the daily newspaper A Lucta, edited by Brito Camacho.

Following the implantation of the republic he was invited to be Portuguese Minister in London. In April 1911 he travelled to England and presented his credentials to King George V on October 11, serving as plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom (1911–1918, 1919–1923).

He managed to ingratiate himself thoroughly with the British Foreign Office, acting as the principal negotiator for all matters relating to Portugal. One should highlight his actions concerning the problems of the Anglo-German negotiations on the division of the Portuguese colonies and his cooperation with the Portuguese governments regarding the Portuguese participation on the war at the formal request of Great Britain.

Texiera Gomes returned to Portugal in January 1918 and was put under house arrest during the dictatorship of Sidónio Pais. He returned to diplomacy after the fall of Sidonist regime and became minister to Spain (1919) and then again to the United Kingdom (1919–1923). He was a member of the Portuguese Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference(1919–1920) and an unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic Party (Partido Democrático) at the presidential elections of August 6, 1919 won by António José de Almeida. He was a delegate to the League of Nations, serving as Vice-President of the General Assembly (September 6, 1922 – September 30, 1922) and was elected in-absentia President of the Republic (August 6, 1923), arriving at the port of Lisbon on October 3, 1923.

During his term Teixeira Gomes made unsuccessful attempts to combat terrorism and suppressed at least four major revolts (1924–1925) organized by radicals and the military. He was constantly harassed by the Nationalist Party and, unable to manage political crises, he resigned on December 11, 1925 on the pretext of poor health. He went into voluntary exile on December 17, 1925 and died in Bougie in 1941.