José Luciano de Castro

José Luciano de Castro
Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 16 February 1886 – 14 January 1890
Monarch	Luís Carlos
Preceded by	Fontes Pereira de Melo
Succeeded by	António de Serpa Pimentel
In office 5 February 1897 – 26 July 1900
Monarch	Carlos
Preceded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Succeeded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
In office 20 October 1904 – 19 March 1906
Monarch	Carlos
Preceded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Succeeded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Personal details
Born	December 14, 1834 Oliveirinha, Portugal
Died	March 9, 1914 (aged 79) Anadia, Portugal
Political party	Progressist

José Luciano de Castro Pereira Corte-Real (December 14, 1834 – March 9, 1914) was a Portuguese politician who served three terms as President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister). He was one of the founders of the Progressist Party, of which he was the leader from the time of Anselmo José Braamcamp's death in 1885, onward.

de Castro was the head of government during the pink-map crisis and the subsequent British ultimatum. The crisis was one of the factors that proved decisive in the fall of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy on 5 October 1910.

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