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Article Nº 1700 Office or position Vol. II · pp. 192–194 3 min read

Civil governors

Original title: Governadores Civis

A chronological list of the civil governors of the Funchal district (including those styled prefect and administrator-general) from the establishment of constitutional government in 1834 to 1941.

Civil governors

List of civil governors, 1834–1941

Under the heading of civil governors, we give here the complete list of the chief authorities of this district since the establishment of constitutional government, although some of these authorities bore the title of prefect (prefeito) or administrator-general (administrador geral):

Luís da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque (1834), Count of Carvalhal (1835), António de Gamboa e Liz (1835), Baron of Lordelo (1838), Domingos Olavo Correia de Azevedo (1841), José Silvestre Ribeiro (1846), Viscount of Fornos de Algodres (1852), José Gerardo Ferreira Passos (1854), António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro (1856), José Maria Baldy (1858), Count of Farrobo (1860), Januário Correia de Almeida (1862), Jacinto António Perdigão (1863), Dom João Frederico da Câmara Leme (1868), Marquis of Sesimbra (1868), Viscount of Andaluz (1869), Afonso de Castro (1870), Dom João Frederico da Câmara Leme (1870), Francisco de Albuquerque Mesquita e Castro (1876), Afonso de Castro (1877), Viscount of Vila Mendo (1881), Viscount of Vila Mendo (1882), Tomás Nunes de Serra e Moura (1884), Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses (1884), Viscount of Canavial (1884), Dom João de Alarcão Valasques Sarmento Osório (1885), José de Azevedo Castelo Branco (1890), Dom Manuel Saldanha da Gama (1890), Luís do Canto de Castro Merens de Távora (1892), Dom Manuel Saldanha da Gama (1893), António Augusto de Sousa e Silva (1894), José Ribeiro da Cunha (1896), José António de Almada (1897), Marquis of Funchal (1899), Dom Tomás de Almeida Manuel de Vilhena (1900), Dom Bernardo da Costa de Sousa Macedo (1901), José Ribeiro da Cunha (1901), Marquis of Funchal (1904), João de Soares Branco (1906), José Ribeiro da Cunha (1906), Dom Bernardo da Costa de Sousa Macedo (1906), Boaventura Mendes de Almeida (1907), João de Paiva de Faria Leite Brandão (1908), Afonso de Melo Pinto Veloso (1910), José Ribeiro da Cunha (1910), Manuel Augusto Martins (1910), João Maria de Santiago Prezado (1912), Alfredo de Sá Cardoso (1913), Vasco Borges (1914), Sebastião Heredia (1914), José Vicente de Freitas (1915), Sebastião Heredia (1915), José de Sousa Rosa (1917), Daniel Telo Simões Soares (1917), Carlos José Barata Pinto Feio (1918), Américo Ciríaco Correia da Silva (1918), Manuel Augusto Martins (1919), Daniel Telo Simões Soares (1919), Vasco Crispiniano da Silva (1920), António da Cruz Rodrigues dos Santos (1920), João Miguel Rodrigues da Silva (1920), António Augusto da Silva Pereira (1921), Aires de Mesquita Espranger (1921), Acácio Augusto Correia Pinto (1921), Álvaro Nobre da Veiga (1922), Eduardo Rocha Sarsfield (1922), João Augusto de Freitas (1922), Daniel Telo Simões Soares (1923), Júlio Ferreira Cabral (1924), José Varela (1924), António C. Rodrigues Leitão (1924), João Guilherme Meneses Ferreira (1925), Manuel dos Santos Mendonça (1926), Francisco Martins Luzignan de Azevedo (1926), Ernesto Florêncio Cunha (1927), José Maria de Freitas (1928), Artur Almeida Cabaço (1931), António Caldeira Coelho (1934), Augusto Goulart de Medeiros (1934), José Nosolini Pinto Osório da Silva Leão (1938), Gustavo Teixeira Dias (1941).

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Time

Years mentioned · 03
  1. Madeira became an administrative district like those of the mainland, no longer an overseas province, with civil and military government separated and Mousinho de Albuquerque as first prefect.

  2. The Republic was proclaimed while the Madeiran Republican party was weak; several civil governors succeeded one another and Rua da Princesa was renamed Rua 31 de Janeiro.

  3. Gustavo Teixeira Dias was appointed civil governor of Funchal.

People

People mentioned · 08
  1. Held the district's chief office from 1835.

  2. Civil governor appointed in 1868 and again in 1870.

  3. Civil governor appointed in 1917, 1919 and 1923.

  4. Civil governor appointed in 1899 and 1904.

  5. Last civil governor in the list, appointed in 1941.

  6. Civil governor appointed four times, in 1896, 1901, 1906 and 1910.

  7. Civil governor of the district appointed in 1846.

  8. First chief authority of the district under constitutional government, appointed in 1834.

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