Joaquim Pimenta de Castro explained

Honorific-Prefix:Count
Joaquim Pimenta de Castro
Office2:Prime Minister of Portugal
Term Start2:25 January 1915
Term End2:14 May 1915
President2:Manuel de Arriaga
Predecessor2:Vítor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho
Successor2:Constitutional Junta
João Chagas (designate)
Birth Date:1846 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Monção, Portugal
Death Place:Lisbon, Portugal
Party:Independent
Spouse:Emília de Freitas
Alma Mater:University of Coimbra
Occupation:Army officer (General),
and mathematician
Signature:AssinaturaJoaquimPimentaDeCastro.svg

Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro (5 November 1846, in Pias, Monção – 14 May 1918, in Lisbon; pronounced as /pt/) was a Portuguese army officer and politician. He was a career military officer reaching the position of General, also graduated in mathematics by the University of Coimbra. In 1908, he was nominated commander of the 3rd Military Region, in Porto. After the proclamation of the Republic on 5 October 1910, he was Minister of War, for only two months, in 1911. He had to resign due to the monarchist incursion of Henrique de Paiva Couceiro. An independent, he was chosen by President Manuel de Arriaga to be the President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) of a government, who would rule without the parliament, where the Portuguese Republican Party, led by Afonso Costa had the majority. His government, with the support of the moderate Evolutionist Party and the Republican Union, and also conservative military factions, was in office from 28 January to 14 May 1915. It was overthrown by the military movement of 14 May 1915, supported by the Republican Party, which also caused the resignation of President Manuel de Arriaga.