Eusébio Leão

Eusébio Leão
Civil Governor of the Lisbon District
In office 5 October 1910 – 23 February 1912
Prime Minister	Teófilo Braga (1910–11) João Pinheiro Chagas (1911) Augusto Vasconcelos (1911–12)
Preceded by	Alfredo Mendes de Magalhães Ramalho
Succeeded by	Manuel Nunes de Oliveira
Member of the Constituent Assembly for Portalegre
In office 15 June 1911 – 25 August 1911
Senator for Portalegre
In office 26 August 1911 – 4 April 1912
Personal details
Born	(1864-02-02)2 February 1864 Gavião, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	21 November 1926(1926-11-21) (aged 62) Lisbon, Portugal
Political party	Portuguese Republican Party (later Unionist Party)
Spouse	Laura Virgínia de Barros de Azevedo
Occupation	Urologist, politician and diplomat
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Francisco Eusébio Lourenço Leão (2 February 1864 – 21 November 1926) was a Portuguese physician and republican politician.

Biography

He was born in Gavião, Portalegre. He was trained as a physician in the Lisbon Medico-Surgical School, from which he graduated in 1890. He practised medicine in his hometown of Gavião, and then specialised in urology in Paris and Berlin.

He was politically active in Lisbon, especially after the 1890 British Ultimatum, contributing to several publications as a vocal proponent of the republican ideals. He joined the Freemasonry in 1893, part of the Elias Garcia Loge from 1895 and the José Estêvão Loge from 1911.

Eusébio Leão was one of the founders of the newspaper A Pátria and, in October 1909, was elected Secretary to the Directory of the Portuguese Republican Party. He ran several times for Parliament around this time, but was never elected.

After the Republican Revolution in 1910, during which he was one of the people who proclaimed the new regime from the balcony of the Lisbon City Hall, he was made Civil Governor of the Lisbon District, and was elected member of the National Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution. Afterwards, he became a Senator.

When the Portuguese Republican Party dissolved in 1912, Eusébio Leão became part of Brito Camacho's Unionist Party. That year, he was named ambassador in Rome, a post he occupied until October 1926.

Eusébio Leão died in Lisbon, on 21 November 1926.