Domingos Oliveira Explained

Honorific-Prefix:General
Domingos Oliveira
Honorific-Suffix:GCTE ComA GOA GCA
Office:Prime Minister of Portugal
Term Start:21 January 1930
Term End:5 July 1932
President:Óscar Carmona
Predecessor:Artur Ivens Ferraz
Successor:António de Oliveira Salazar
Birth Date:31 July 1873
Birth Place:Lisbon, Portugal
Death Place:Lisbon, Portugal
Party:National Union

Domingos Augusto Alves da Costa Oliveira (pronounced as /pt/; 31 July 1873  - 24 December 1957) was a Portuguese general and politician.

He was nominated, on 21 January 1930, Prime Minister of Portugal (President of the Council of Ministers) during the period of the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship) that preceded the Estado Novo (New State). A conservative, he opposed all the attempts to restore democracy, like the failed military uprising of April and May 1931 in Madeira and the Azores Islands. The popularity and political role demonstrated by the Finance Minister, António de Oliveira Salazar, led him to resign on 25 June 1932, to be replaced by Salazar, who would retain the post for the following 36 years.