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  "format": 1,
  "person": "Manuel Pedrosa Gonçalves",
  "language": "en",
  "edition": "2026-09-27",
  "page": "https://entroncamento.org/president-manuel-pedrosa-goncalves.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": "A captain who led the municipality before Eugénio Dias Poitout. The municipal-library chronology gives 1960–1961, while the academic register begins in 1959 and spells his surname Pedroso. Presidential archive telegrams document municipal correspondence from this period."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the documents establish",
      "text": "The Presidential Archive holds two relevant telegram records. GB.0500/1439 covers a birthday greeting to Américo Tomás dated 20 November 1959 and a reply of 4 December; the catalogue explicitly places a question mark beside the attribution to Manuel Pedrosa Gonçalves. GB.0500/1800 describes a one-sheet telegram dated 19 November 1960. These are catalogue descriptions, not newly transcribed facsimiles."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Dates and the historical record",
      "text": "The military rank of captain appears in the municipal chronology. That chronology gives 1960–1961, whereas the academic register gives 1959–1961 and uses the spelling Pedroso. Both variants are retained for research. The available records do not establish his birthplace, education, military postings or exact dates of appointment and departure."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Chronology",
      "text": "1959 / 1960The start year differs between the historical register and library chronology.[2][1]\n\n1959-11-20 – 1959-12-04Presidential Archive file GB.0500/1439; the catalogue marks the identification as uncertain.[4]\n\n1960-11-19A second Presidential Archive entry, GB.0500/1800, records correspondence.[3]\n\n1961End of the presidency in both chronologies.[2][1]"
    },
    {
      "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\nA full military service record has not been located. The rank mentioned in historical accounts does not establish a complete military career.\n\nSome sources use an election year, others the year of taking office. The chronology explains the unresolved dates."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "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": "Arquivo da Presidência da República — GB.0500/1800, 19 de novembro de 1960",
      "url": "https://www.arquivo.presidencia.pt/details?detailsType=Description&id=230567",
      "copyStatus": "citation-only"
    },
    {
      "title": "Arquivo da Presidência da República — GB.0500/1439, 1959",
      "url": "https://www.arquivo.presidencia.pt/details?detailsType=Description&id=229761",
      "copyStatus": "citation-only"
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