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  "person": "Eugénio Dias Poitout",
  "language": "en",
  "edition": "2026-09-27",
  "page": "https://entroncamento.org/president-eugenio-dias-poitout.html",
  "preservationNotice": "This downloadable dossier preserves our biography and citations, not a copy of every cited publication. External articles and videos remain with their publishers unless reuse is authorised. Saved files include their provenance and rights information.",
  "chapters": [
    {
      "heading": "Life and public service",
      "text": "Poitout led the council during the final years of the Estado Novo. The municipal chronology starts in 1962; the academic register uses 1961. The municipal library opened on 29 May 1965 during his administration, an enduring part of the city’s cultural life."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The municipality and its public works",
      "text": "The municipal-library historical overview associates his administration with a second water reservoir, a GNR building, public toilets, daily refuse collection and the viaduct bearing his name. These works addressed the practical difficulties of a settlement divided by railway lines. The account documents infrastructure associated with his administration rather than proving that every project was conceived or completed by him alone."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Legacy and public memory",
      "text": "In a 2006 interview, local historian Manuela Poitout explained that inheriting her father-in-law Eugénio’s documentary and photographic archive helped initiate her research into Entroncamento. This establishes a route by which material from his public life entered later local-history work. It does not establish that the complete private collection has been digitised or made publicly accessible."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The municipality and its public works",
      "text": "In a 2016 retrospective interview, teacher and local historian Manuela Poitout credited his efforts and contacts with opening a local technical-school branch in the 1964/65 school year. She linked the initiative to apprentices previously travelling to Tomar or Torres Novas. This is attributed testimony, not a surviving appointment or inauguration record."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Chronology",
      "text": "1961 / 1962Different published start years; his term spans most of the 1960s.[2][1]\n\n1964 / 1965A later interview credits him with helping establish local technical education in this school year.[6]\n\n1965 – 1970Decision and completion dates given for the road crossing project in the municipal exhibition synopsis.[7]\n\n1974Fernando Gomes dos Santos, previously vice-president, succeeds him.[7]"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Research notes",
      "text": "This is a sourced research dossier. Contemporary records, later historical accounts and personal recollections are distinguished where they differ. An announced project is not treated as a completed achievement. Linked catalogues may describe documents that are not available as digital scans.\n\nBirth, education and family details have not all been independently established. Unverified personal details are omitted.\n\nFurther detail would require consulting the municipal or family archive; a reference to an archive does not mean its contents are digitised here."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "title": "Biblioteca do Entroncamento — Presidentes da Câmara Municipal",
      "url": "https://wikitejo.mediotejo.pt/index.php/sociedade/39-politica/118-presidentes-do-municipio",
      "copyStatus": "citation-only"
    },
    {
      "title": "Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida — O poder local do Estado Novo à democracia, p. 280",
      "url": "https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/11920/5/Livro_Presidentes_e_GC_2013_MAPAlmeida.pdf",
      "copyStatus": "citation-only"
    },
    {
      "title": "Documentary source",
      "url": "https://wikitejo.mediotejo.pt/index.php/entronc",
      "copyStatus": "citation-only"
    },
    {
      "title": "Biblioteca / WikiTejo — Entroncamento: breve história das origens",
      "url": "https://wikitejo.mediotejo.pt/index.php/geografia-biografia-historia/estudos-regionais-estudo-de-uma-localidade/25-entroncamento-breve-historia-das-origens-e-um-olhar-sobre-a-atualidade",
      "copyStatus": "citation-only"
    },
    {
      "title": "Manuela Poitout e o arquivo familiar — O MIRANTE, 2006",
      "url": "https://omirante.pt/semanario/2006-10-11/entrevista/2006-10-11-entroncamento-meu-amor",
      "copyStatus": "citation-only"
    },
    {
      "title": "Manuela Poitout: história e ensino — Médio Tejo, 14 de dezembro de 2016",
      "url": "https://mediotejo.net/entroncamento-manuela-poitout-a-historia-de-quem-conta-historia/",
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    {
      "title": "Entroncamento 1965–1975 — sinopse da exposição municipal de 2017",
      "url": "https://mediotejo.net/entroncamento-exposicao-documental-inaugurada-no-dia-do-concelho/",
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