Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Anselmo José Braamcamp | |
Honorific-Suffix: | GCTE |
Office1: | Prime Minister of Portugal |
Term Start1: | 29 May 1879 |
Term End1: | 25 March 1881 |
Monarch1: | Luís |
Predecessor1: | Fontes Pereira de Melo |
Successor1: | António Rodrigues Sampaio |
Birth Date: | 23 October 1817 |
Birth Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
Profession: | Statesman, Scholar |
Death Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
Signature: | Assinatura Anselmo José Braamcamp.svg |
Party: | Progressive Party |
Alma Mater: | University of Coimbra |
Anselmo José Braamcamp de Almeida Castelo Branco (23 October 1817 – 13 November 1885) was a Portuguese politician of the Constitutional Monarchy era.[1] He was the leader of the Historic Party (later, the Progressive Party), Minister of the Kingdom, and, between 1879 and 1880, Head of Government (President of the Council of Ministers).[2]