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Francisco Maria da Veiga

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Francisco Maria da Veiga
Judge Veiga on the cover of Illustração Portugueza, 1907.
BornSeptember 1852
Almendra, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal
Died30 December 1934
Lisbon, Portugal
SpouseJoaquina Rita de São Bento Vaz Calheiros
FatherJosé Caetano da Veiga
MotherMaria Benedita Rocha

Francisco Maria da Veiga, GCNSC, was a Portuguese judge and pro-monarchist.

Early life

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He completed law in University of Coimbra at the age of 20 and practiced it before becoming a magistrate.

Career

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In 1893, during the financial, social and political crisis that preceded the Lisbon Regicide and the 5 October 1910 revolution the Kingdom Minister João Franco made him a judge with enhanced powers to help maintain the monarchy.

He specially watched the press, republican activities and anarchists. In name of public order, he censored the anti-royal press, but most of his victims were found innocent specially because the attorney-general was the republican and Freemason Trindade Coelho.

Targeted by the press, he was caricatured with a police uniform and the blue pencil of censorship.

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