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Lino José Góis Ferreira

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Lino José Góis Ferreira
President of the Lisbon Administrative Commission
In office
18 December 1975 – 30 December 1976
Preceded byJoaquim Caldeira Rodrigues
Succeeded byAquilino Ribeiro Machado (as mayor)
Personal details
Born (1936-11-05) 5 November 1936 (age 87)
Funchal, Portugal
Education
OccupationMilitary officer
Military service
AllegiancePortugal
Branch/servicePortuguese Army
RankMajor general

Lino José Góis Ferreira (born 5 November 1936) is a military officer in the Portuguese Army, with a rank of the major general. He was the President of the Lisbon Administrative Commission (city mayor) from 1975 to 1976.

Biography

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Lino José Góis Ferreira was born on 5 November 1936 in Funchal, Portugal. He has graduated in the civil and military engineering in 1960 from the Higher Technical Institute of the Technical University of Lisbon and the Military Academy.[1]

He served in the Telecommunications Arm of the Portuguese Army. From 1962 to 1964, he was the Chief of the Military Telecommunications Service of the Independent Territorial Command of Guinea, the Chief of the Radiophonic Service of the Telegraph Battalion from 1966 to 1968, the Commander of the Independent Transmission Company of Guinea from 1968 to 1974, and the Commander of the 2nd Broadcasting Battalion of the Military Region of Mozambique.[1]

Follwowing the Carnation Revolution in 1975, he was appointed by the Lisbon City Council as the President of the Lisbon Administrative Commission, being in the office from 18 December 1975 to 30 December 1976.[1][2] From 1991 to 1992, then a brigadier, he was the Director of the Director of Communications and Information Systems of the Portuguese Army, the Chief of the Division of the Armed Forces General Staff, and acting director of the Telecommunications Arm. Currently he has the rank of major general.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Presidentes da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa". cm-lisnoa.pt (in Portuguese).
  2. ^ Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida: Dicionário biográfico do poder local em Portugal, 1936–2013. LeYa, 2014. ISBN 9892039882. (in Portuguese)