Person physician journalist senator
Vasco Gonçalves Marques
b. 1877
physician · journalist · senator · president of the Junta Geral
Funchal-born physician and journalist (born 1877) who became a leading Madeiran politician, four times senator for Madeira and president of the Junta Geral. He moved from the Regenerator party through the Democrats to the Reconstituição Nacional, whose district committee he chaired from 1920.
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- Representation in the Cortes — Senator for Madeira in several republican parliaments, 1915-1926.
- Asylums — President of the Junta Geral who supported the 1924 transfer.
- Political Parties — Young liberal-minded Regenerator.
- Political Parties — Democratic vice-president and, from 1920, president of the Reconstituição Nacional district committee.
- Tenerife visitors — Spoke at the reception for the Tenerife visitors in the Junta Geral palace in 1922.
- Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Senator and president of the Junta Geral; a member of the Honorary Committee.
- Gonçalves Marques (Vasco) — Person whose entry is filed under the heading Marques (Vasco Gonçalves).
2Chronology
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Vasco Gonçalves Marques was born in Funchal.
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Vasco Gonçalves Marques completed the medical-surgical course in Funchal.
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Vasco Gonçalves Marques was appointed secretary of the emigration police in Funchal.
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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.
