António Marques Mendes


António Joaquim Bastos Marques Mendes was a Portuguese lawyer and politician.

Background

Born in, Porto, Paranhos, he is a son of Joaquim Marques Mendes, Director of Services in the Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones, and wife Antónia Pereira da Costa Bastos. He died in Porto in 2015.

Career

He is a Licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
He started his career as a lawyer.
Among other things he was a Co-Founder and a Member of the Social Democratic Party together with Francisco Sá Carneiro, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, Carlos Mota Pinto, João Bosco Mota Amaral, Alberto João Jardim and António Barbosa de Melo of then Popular Democratic Party. He became Mayor of the Municipal Chamber of Fafe, Deputy to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic and also a Representative at the European Parliament for his Party.

Family

He married at Fafe, São Romão de Arões, on November 29, 1956 Maria Isabel Gonçalves, born in Fafe, Cepães, on July 10, 1933, an Elementary School teacher, daughter of Gervásio Gonçalves, an Industrialist, and first wife Isabel Teixeira. They are the parents of Luís Marques Mendes.