Work : New Career 1980 (Politics)
Work : Gain social status 6 November 1985 (Elected Prime Minister) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Work : Gain social status 22 January 2006 (Elected President of Portugal) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Portuguese politician, elected President on 22 January 2006. Prior to that he served for ten years as Prime Minister, from 6 November 1985 to 28 October 1995, the longest of any democratically elected Prime Minister in Portuguese history. During those ten years, he set another record when he won an absolute parliamentary majority and then repeated that feat. With a doctorate from the University of York, he began his career as a college professor of economics. In 1980 he entered politics when he was appointed Minister of Finance by then-Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less