Alfredo Nobre da Costa explained

Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Honorific-Suffix:GCC, ComC, OMRI
Order:Prime Minister of Portugal
Term Start:29 August 1978[1]
Term End:22 November 1978
President:António Ramalho Eanes
Predecessor:Mário Soares
Successor:Carlos Mota Pinto
Order2:Minister of Industry and Technology
Term Start2:25 March 1977
Term End2:30 January 1978
Primeminister2:Mário Soares
Predecessor2:António Sousa Gomes
Successor2:Carlos Melancia
Order3:Secretary of State for Heavy Industry
Term Start3:14 January 1976
Term End3:23 July 1976
Primeminister3:José Pinheiro de Azevedo
Predecessor3:Mário Cardoso dos Santos
Successor3:Carlos Melancia
Birth Date:1923 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal
Death Place:Lisbon, Portugal
Spouse:Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama
Party:Independent

Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, (10 September 1923 – 1 April 1996), commonly known as Nobre da Costa (pronounced as /pt/), was a Portuguese engineer and politician who briefly served as prime minister of Portugal from August to November 1978.

A moderate independent center-left politician, he was appointed by President António Ramalho Eanes to serve as prime minister that would finish the four-year legislative term which had been initiated in the 1976 Portuguese legislative election. His cabinet consisted of independents. However, it failed to gain a majority in the Assembly of the Republic, and Nobre da Costa resigned. He was replaced by Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto.

Early life

He was the only son of Alfredo Henrique Andresen da Costa (born 4 November 1893), who was Portuguese of Italian, French, Danish and Goan ancestry, and Maria Helena Nobre.

He graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico.

Personal life

He married Maria de Lourdes de Carvalho e Cunha Fortes da Gama on 5 May 1951 and had a single daughter, Vera Maria Nobre da Costa (born 5 February 1952). He died in 1996 after a long illness. At the time of his death he held the position of chairman at the engineering firm EFACEC.[2]

Honours

Notes and References

  1. News: Portugal Gets Self-Effacing Premier . Stanley . Meisler . . Alfredo Nobre da Costa, who was sworn in Tuesday as the new premier of Portugal, likes to emphasize that... . August 30, 1978 . I-5.
  2. Web site: Former Prime Minister Nobre da Costa Dead at 73. Associated Press. 1 April 1996. 19 March 2022.
  3. Web site: Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas. Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. 1 August 2017.
  4. Web site: Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras. Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. 1 August 2017.