Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo
b. 1880
politician · lawyer · military officer
Funchal-born law graduate elected deputy for Madeira in 1911 and 1915, who served with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in France and was taken prisoner in 1918. In 1916 he co-sponsored bills on the Junta Agrícola, the colonia contract and the sale of the levadas.
1Mentioned in
- Representation in the Cortes — Deputy for Madeira repeatedly from 1911 to 1922.
- Levadas — Deputy who co-sponsored the 1916 bills on the Junta Agrícola, the colonia contract and the sale of the levadas.
- Great War — Reserve second lieutenant captured on 9 April 1918.
- Political Parties — Madeiran who followed Álvaro de Castro out of the Nationalist party in 1923.
- Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Deputy and a member of the Honorary Committee.
2Chronology
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Madeira elected its deputies to the Constituent Assembly of the Republic, among them Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo.
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A general election of deputies and senators was held for Madeira; Carlos Olavo was re-elected deputy and Vasco Gonçalves Marques and Daniel Simões Soares were elected senators.
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Madeiran deputies presented bills to sell the levadas and reform the colonia contract; debated in the Funchal press, they were defeated by opposition in Madeira.
3Places mentioned
Abroad