Adriano Moreira
ComC GCC GOIH GCSE
Member of the Council of State
In office
12 January 2016 – 2019
Appointed byAssembly of the Republic
PresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
President of the CDS – People's Party
In office
13 April 1986 – 31 January 1988
Preceded byFrancisco Lucas Pires
Succeeded byDiogo Freitas do Amaral
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Elections: 1980, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1991
In office
13 August 1987 – 26 October 1995
ConstituencyLisbon District
In office
31 May 1983 – 12 August 1987
ConstituencyPorto District
In office
13 November 1980 – 30 May 1983
ConstituencyBragança District
Minister of the Overseas Provinces
In office
13 April 1961 – 4 December 1962
PresidentAmérico Tomás
Prime MinisterAntónio de Oliveira Salazar
Preceded byVasco Lopes Alves
Succeeded byAntónio Augusto Peixoto Correia
Personal details
Born
Adriano José Alves Moreira

(1922-09-06)6 September 1922[1]
Grijó de Vale Benfeito, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal
Died23 October 2022(2022-10-23) (aged 100)
Political partyCDS – People's Party (1979–2022)
SpouseMónica Isabel Maia de Lima Mayer
Children6, including Isabel Moreira
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
Complutense University of Madrid
ProfessionLawyer
Professor

Adriano José Alves Moreira, ComC GCC GOIH GCSE (6 September 1922 – 23 October 2022) was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and a leading political figure in Portugal throughout the second half of the 20th century.

Education

Adriano Moreira was born in Macedo de Cavaleiros, Northern Portugal, son of António José Moreira and wife Leopoldina do Céu Alves, and graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in 1944. Later he would be awarded a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Moreira started as a sympathizer of the Portuguese Democratic Opposition movement; his name appeared on a list of signantes of the MUD in 1945. He was the lawyer of the family of General José Marques Godinho, who had been arrested (and who later died in prison) because of his attempt to overthrow the Salazar regime in 1947. The family of the general sued the minister at the time, Fernando Santos Costa, for his alleged responsibility in the death; several members of the family were themselves arrested, as, briefly, was Moreira himself.

With time, Moreira became closer to the Estado Novo. He was chosen to be the Portuguese minister for Overseas Territories in Salazar's cabinet. Noted for the legislative reforms that he introduced during his two years (1961–1963) in this role, he also played a vital part in founding two African institutions of higher education: the Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique and the Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola. From the 1974 Carnation Revolution until 1976 Moreira lived in Brazil.

Nevertheless, Moreira's influence over the CDS – People's Party, the conservative party of which he was president from 1986 to 1988[2] and which he represented as a deputy in the Portuguese Parliament between 1980 and 1995, was to be long-lasting. It enabled him to occupy an important place in the development of post-1974 politics. He was Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic between 1991 and 1995. Meanwhile, he served as a professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Technical University of Lisbon). His published works include A Europa em Formação (Lisbon, 1974), Ciência Política (Lisbon, 1979), and Teoria das Relações Internacionais (Coimbra, 1996).

Moreira married Isabel Mónica Maia de Lima Mayer (born at Mercês, Lisbon, on 2 August 1945) on 30 August 1968 at São Martinho, Sintra. Her paternal grandfather had distant Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardic Jewish ancestry and her paternal grandmother was Irish. The couple had six children. His daughter, Isabel Moreira, is a Deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, representing the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS).[3]

Following his retirement, Moreira was still an influential voice in the country. He was one of the five personalities elected by the Assembly of the Republic to the Council of State on 18 December 2015, and he took office on 12 January 2016,[4] his term having ended after the following election, in 2019.[5]

Moreira turned 100 on 6 September 2022,[6] and died on 23 October.[7] He was the longest lived politician in the history of Portuguese democracy.[2]

Affiliations, awards, decorations

Affiliations

  • Member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Academia de Marinha, Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas de Madrid and Academia Portuguesa da História.

Awards

Decorations

References

  1. ↑ "Adriano José Alves Moreira." GeneAll.net. Web. 13 November 2010. <http://www.geneall.net/P/per_page.php?id=21204>.
  2. 1 2 "Adriano Moreira, o político da história democrática com a maior longevidade" [Adriano Moreira, the longest-lived politician in the democratic history]. Público (in Portuguese). Agência Lusa. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Ser deputado. Tal pai, tal filha". Diário de Notícias. 30 April 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Tomada de posse dos membros do Conselho de Estado" [Swearing in of the members of the Council of State]. Parlamento — COMUNICAR (bulletin of Parliament) (in Portuguese). 12 January 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  5. ↑ Henriques, João Pedro (15 November 2019). "Conselho de Estado. PSD tira Adriano Moreira para pôr Rui Rio" [Council of State. PSD takes Adriano Moreira to replace him with Rui Rio]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  6. ↑ Adriano Moreira — Curriculum Vitae — Universidade da Beira Interior
  7. ↑ "Morreu Adriano Moreira, um transmontano sem ressentimentos". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 23 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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