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José Luciano de Castro

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José Luciano de Castro
39th Prime Minister of Portugal
In office
16 February 1886 – 14 January 1890
MonarchsLuís I
Carlos I
Preceded byFontes Pereira de Melo
Succeeded byAntónio de Serpa Pimentel
44th Prime Minister of Portugal
In office
5 February 1897 – 26 July 1900
MonarchCarlos I
Preceded byErnesto Hintze Ribeiro
Succeeded byErnesto Hintze Ribeiro
46th Prime Minister of Portugal
In office
20 October 1904 – 19 March 1906
MonarchCarlos I
Preceded byErnesto Hintze Ribeiro
Succeeded byErnesto Hintze Ribeiro
Personal details
Born(1834-12-14)December 14, 1834
Lisbon, Portugal
DiedMarch 9, 1914(1914-03-09) (aged 79)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyProgressist

José Luciano de Castro Pereira Corte-Real (1834–1914) was a Portuguese politician who served three terms as President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister). He was one of the founders of the Progressist Party, of which he was the leader from the time of Anselmo José Braamcamp's death in 1885, onward.

de Castro was the head of government during the pink-map crisis and the subsequent British ultimatum. The crisis was one of the factors that proved decisive in the fall of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy on 5 October 1910.

Preceded by Prime Minister of Portugal
(President of the Council of Ministers)

1886–1890
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Portugal
(President of the Council of Ministers)

1897–1900
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Portugal
(President of the Council of Ministers)

1904–1906
Succeeded by

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