António Lino Neto
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António Lino Neto (Mação, 30 January 1873 – 16 November 1961)[1] was a Portuguese Catholic politician, lawyer and professor of Political Economy. He was politically active during the end of the Constitutional Monarchy, the First Republic and the beginning of the Estado Novo. He was the president of the Catholic Centre Party.[2]
Lino Neto was born in Mação, to Lino Leitão Neto and Rosa Marques Correia da Silva.[3] He went to the Seminary in Portalegre, and then studied Law in the University of Coimbra (from 1894 to 1899). In 1901 he marries his wife, Maria Matilde da Cruz Antunes de Mendonça.[3] In 1908 he moves with his family to Lisbon and accepts a position as full professor in Instituto Industrial e Comercial de Lisboa.[2] His office, as lawyer, was located in Rua Nova do Almada.[3] António Lino Neto acquires the Santana Palace in Lisbon in 1919.[4] He would be vice-rector of the Technical University of Lisbon from 1938 to 1943.[1]
Lino Neto had a total of 8 children, one of which was António Maria de Mendonça Lino Neto,[3] who would be Minister of Justice during the Estado Novo.[5]
Lino Neto was a close friend of Guerra Junqueiro, António Sérgio and poet Afonso Lopes Vieira.[1]
