Person wine merchant politician minister of finance
João Gualberto de Oliveira
1788–1852
wine merchant · politician · minister of finance · foreign minister · minister of foreign affairs
Funchal-born wine merchant who became deputy, senator for Madeira, peer, finance minister and foreign minister, and was created Baron and then Count of Tojal. He is remembered chiefly for his reforms of Portugal's public finances.
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- Representation in the Cortes — Senator for Madeira, re-elected in 1841 after becoming finance minister.
- Oliveira — Titled member of the Oliveira family descended from Domingos de Oliveira Alvares, with his own entry in the Elucidário.
- Noble titles — Madeiran statesman and parliamentarian, made Baron (1838) and Count (1844) of Tojal.
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