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href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiTumbuka</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%AF%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B2" title="فرانسیسکو دا کوستا گومز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="فرانسیسکو دا کوستا گومز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%80%EC%8B%9C%EC%8A%A4%EC%BF%A0_%EB%8B%A4_%EC%BD%94%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%80_%EA%B3%A0%EB%A9%94%EC%8A%A4" title="프란시스쿠 다 코스타 고메스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="프란시스쿠 다 코스타 고메스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Franciscus da Costa Gomes – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Franciscus da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2" title="فرانسيسكو دا كوستا جوميز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="فرانسيسكو دا كوستا جوميز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Francisco da Costa Gomes" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" 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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">15th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Portugal" title="President of Portugal">President of Portugal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 September 1974 – 13 July 1976</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vasco_Gon%C3%A7alves" title="Vasco Gonçalves">Vasco Gonçalves</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pinheiro_de_Azevedo" class="mw-redirect" title="José Pinheiro de Azevedo">José Pinheiro de Azevedo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sp%C3%ADnola" title="António de Spínola">António de Spínola</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Ramalho_Eanes" title="António Ramalho Eanes">António Ramalho Eanes</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; 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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/National_Salvation_Junta" title="National Salvation Junta">President of the National Salvation Junta</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 September 1974 – 14 March 1975</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sp%C3%ADnola" title="António de Spínola">António de Spínola</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Office abolished</i></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_General_Staff_(Portugal)" title="Armed Forces General Staff (Portugal)">Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 April 1974<sup id="cite_ref-FCG_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FCG-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 13 July 1976</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joaquim_da_Luz_Cunha" class="mw-redirect" title="Joaquim da Luz Cunha">Joaquim da Luz Cunha</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Ramalho_Eanes" title="António Ramalho Eanes">António Ramalho Eanes</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />12 September 1972<sup id="cite_ref-FCG_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FCG-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – March 1974</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ven%C3%A2ncio_Augusto_Deslandes" class="mw-redirect" title="Venâncio Augusto Deslandes">Venâncio Augusto Deslandes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joaquim_da_Luz_Cunha" class="mw-redirect" title="Joaquim da Luz Cunha">Joaquim da Luz Cunha</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1914-06-30</span>)</span>30 June 1914<br /><a href="/wiki/Chaves_Municipality,_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="Chaves Municipality, Portugal">Chaves</a>, Portugal</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">31 July 2001<span style="display:none">(2001-07-31)</span> (aged 87)<br /><a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a>, Portugal</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Alto_de_S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_Cemetery" title="Alto de São João Cemetery">Alto de São João Cemetery</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Maria Estela Veloso de Antas Varajão</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="8 December 1952">1952</span>)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Porto" title="University of Porto">University of Porto</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Portfolio</th><td class="infobox-data">Military Region of Angola</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Assinatura_Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Francisco da Costa Gomes's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Assinatura_Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.svg/128px-Assinatura_Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Assinatura_Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.svg/192px-Assinatura_Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Assinatura_Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.svg/256px-Assinatura_Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="605" data-file-height="126" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Military_flag_of_Portugal.svg/18px-Military_flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Military_flag_of_Portugal.svg/28px-Military_flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Military_flag_of_Portugal.svg/37px-Military_flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="542" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Army" title="Portuguese Army">Portuguese Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1931–1976</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/General" class="mw-redirect" title="General">General</a> (effective)<br /><a href="/wiki/Field_Marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="Field Marshal">Field Marshal</a> (honorific)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_War" title="Portuguese Colonial War">Portuguese Colonial War</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Francisco da Costa Gomes</b>, <small><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Tower_and_Sword" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of the Tower and Sword">ComTE</a></small> <small><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Aviz" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Aviz">GOA</a></small> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Portuguese pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="pt-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Portuguese" title="Help:IPA/Portuguese">[fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku<span class="wrap"> </span>ðɐ<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈkɔʃtɐ<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈɣomɨʃ]</a></span>; 30 June 1914 – 31 July 2001) was a former <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a> <a href="/wiki/Military_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Military officer">military officer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">politician</a> who was the 15th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Portugal" title="President of Portugal">President of Portugal</a> from 1974 to 1976. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gomes was born in Chaves, Portugal in 30 June 1914, he was one of the eleven children of António José Gomes and Idalina Júlia Monteiro da Costa. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.jpg/220px-Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.jpg/330px-Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.jpg/440px-Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="861" data-file-height="1288" /></a><figcaption>Gomes in the 1940s</figcaption></figure> <p>On 8 December 1952, Gomes married Maria Estela Veloso de Antas Varajão, daughter of João de Campos Varajão and his wife Angélica Martins Veloso, at the Cathedral of <a href="/wiki/Viana_do_Castelo" title="Viana do Castelo">Viana do Castelo</a>. The couple had only one son, Francisco da Costa Gomes. </p><p>In 1961, Gomes, acting as under-secretary of state for the Army, was involved in a constitutional "coup d'état" headed by the Minister of Defense, General <a href="/wiki/J%C3%BAlio_Botelho_Moniz" title="Júlio Botelho Moniz">Júlio Botelho Moniz</a>, that tried to convince President <a href="/wiki/Am%C3%A9rico_Tom%C3%A1s" title="Américo Tomás">Américo Tomás</a> to remove an aged <a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Oliveira_Salazar" title="António de Oliveira Salazar">António de Oliveira Salazar</a> from the premiership. </p><p>In 1970 he occupied the post of Commander of the Military Region of <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_West_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese West Africa">Angola</a>, where he overhauled the chief-command and was the first to try to establish a military agreement with the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (<a href="/wiki/UNITA" title="UNITA">UNITA</a>) against the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (<a href="/wiki/MPLA" title="MPLA">MPLA</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_of_Angola" title="National Liberation Front of Angola">National Liberation Front of Angola</a> (FNLA). </p><p>On 12 September 1972 Gomes was called back to Portugal to occupy the post of Chief of the Armed Forces—replacing General <a href="/wiki/Ven%C3%A2ncio_Augusto_Deslandes" class="mw-redirect" title="Venâncio Augusto Deslandes">Venâncio Augusto Deslandes</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ven%C3%A2ncio_Augusto_Deslandes" class="extiw" title="pt:Venâncio Augusto Deslandes">pt</a>]</span>—but he was replaced in March 1974 for refusing to swear his loyalty to the President of the Council of Ministers <a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Caetano" title="Marcelo Caetano">Marcelo Caetano</a> in a public ceremony. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Carnation_Revolution" title="Carnation Revolution">Carnation Revolution</a> in 25 April, Gomes was one of the seven military leaders who made up the <a href="/wiki/Junta_de_Salva%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Nacional" class="mw-redirect" title="Junta de Salvação Nacional">National Salvation Junta</a>. Between 25 April and 30 September he was the second-in-command of Portugal behind <a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sp%C3%ADnola" title="António de Spínola">António de Spínola</a>. He became Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff again on 30 April 1974. </p><p>Following Spinola's resignation on 30 September 1974, Gomes was named as the President of the Republic by the reorganised Junta and served until 13 July 1976, when he was succeeded by General <a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Ramalho_Eanes" title="António Ramalho Eanes">António Ramalho Eanes</a>, who won the <a href="/wiki/1976_Portuguese_presidential_election" title="1976 Portuguese presidential election">1976 Portugese presidential election</a>. During his presidency, Portugal faced a turbulent period known as the <a href="/wiki/Ongoing_Revolutionary_Process" title="Ongoing Revolutionary Process">Ongoing Revolutionary Process</a>. Despite the ambiguity of his position, he was recognised for having prevented a potential civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received an honorary promotion to <a href="/wiki/Field_Marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="Field Marshal">Field Marshal</a> in 1982. </p><p>Gomes died of <a href="/wiki/Respiratory_failure" title="Respiratory failure">respiratory failure</a> at the age of 87 at the Lisbon Military Hospital on 31 July 2001. He was buried in the <a href="/wiki/Alto_de_S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_Cemetery" title="Alto de São João Cemetery">Alto de São João Cemetery</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National">National</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: National"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PRT_Order_of_Liberty_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/PRT_Order_of_Liberty_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.svg/55px-PRT_Order_of_Liberty_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="55" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/PRT_Order_of_Liberty_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.svg/83px-PRT_Order_of_Liberty_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/PRT_Order_of_Liberty_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.svg/110px-PRT_Order_of_Liberty_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Liberty" title="Order of Liberty">Order of Liberty</a> (GCL, 5 July 2023) <i>(posthumously)</i><sup id="cite_ref-:02_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PRT_Three_Orders_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/PRT_Three_Orders_BAR.svg/55px-PRT_Three_Orders_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="55" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/PRT_Three_Orders_BAR.svg/83px-PRT_Three_Orders_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/PRT_Three_Orders_BAR.svg/110px-PRT_Three_Orders_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Sash_of_the_Three_Orders" title="Sash of the Three Orders">Sash of the Three Orders</a> (30 September 1974 – 13 July 1976)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PRT_Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/PRT_Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR.svg/55px-PRT_Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="55" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/PRT_Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR.svg/83px-PRT_Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/PRT_Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR.svg/110px-PRT_Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_of_the_Sword_-_Commander_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_the_Tower_and_Sword" title="Military Order of the Tower and Sword">Military Order of the Tower and Sword</a> (ComTE, 2 November 1972)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Grand_Officer_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Grand_Officer_BAR.svg/55px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Grand_Officer_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="55" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Grand_Officer_BAR.svg/83px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Grand_Officer_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Grand_Officer_BAR.svg/110px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Grand_Officer_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Grand Officer of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_Aviz" title="Military Order of Aviz">Military Order of Aviz</a> (GOA, 20 August 1971)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Commander_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Commander_BAR.svg/55px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Commander_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="55" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Commander_BAR.svg/83px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Commander_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Commander_BAR.svg/110px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Commander_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_Aviz" title="Military Order of Aviz">Military Order of Aviz</a> (ComA, 28 December 1953)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Officer_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Officer_BAR.svg/55px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Officer_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="55" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Officer_BAR.svg/83px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Officer_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Officer_BAR.svg/110px-PRT_Military_Order_of_Aviz_-_Officer_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Officer of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_Aviz" title="Military Order of Aviz">Military Order of Aviz</a> (OA, 16 September 1950)<sup id="cite_ref-:0_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign">Foreign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Francisco_da_Costa_Gomes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Foreign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_Brazil_%281968%E2%80%931992%29.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil_%281968%E2%80%931992%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" 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Lisbon: D. Quixote. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-972-20-5518-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-972-20-5518-5"><bdi>978-972-20-5518-5</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Lisbon: Esfera dos Livros. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-989-626-103-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-989-626-103-0"><bdi>978-989-626-103-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Marechal+Costa+Gomes%2C+No+centro+da+tempestade&rft.place=Lisbon&rft.pub=Esfera+dos+Livros&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-989-626-103-0&rft.aulast=Rodrigues&rft.aufirst=Lu%C3%ADs+Nuno&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrancisco+da+Costa+Gomes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.presidencia.pt/?idc=13&idi=3349&idl=2">"Costa Gomes"</a>. Presidency of the Portuguese Republic<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="/wiki/History_of_Portugal" title="History of Portugal">History of Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Portuguese_history" title="Timeline of Portuguese history">Timeline of Portuguese history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Portugal" title="Politics of Portugal">Politics of Portugal</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sp%C3%ADnola" title="António de Spínola">António de Spínola</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of Portugal">President of Portugal</a> </b><br />1974–1976 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ramalho_Eanes" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramalho Eanes">Ramalho Eanes</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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