Rodrigo José Rodrigues Explained

Rodrigo José Rodrigues
Office:Ministry of the Interior
Term Start:9 January 1913
Term End:9 February 1914
Predecessor:Duarte Leite
Successor:Bernardino Machado
Office2:Governor of Macau
Term Start2:5 January 1923
Term End2:18 October 1925
Predecessor2:Henrique Monteiro Correia da Silva
Successor2:Manuel Firmino de Almeida Maia Magalhães
Birth Date:26 July 1879
Birth Place:Celorico de Basto, Portugal

Rodrigo José Rodrigues (26 July 1879 – 18 January 1963) was a military physician, colonial administrator and politician who held prominent roles during the First Portuguese Republic. He was Minister of the Interior (1913–1914), Civil Governor of the District of Aveiro and the District of Porto, Governor of Macau (1922–1924) and attaché of the Portuguese legation to the Society of Nations (1924–1927).

Rodrigues was a physician in Cape Verde and Goa and a professor at the Goa Medical School before 1910.

He participated in the Portuguese delegation of the Society of Nations from 1925 to 1927.

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