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António de Saldanha da Gama, Count of Porto Santo

António de Saldanha da Gama, Count of Porto Santo (Lisbon, 5 February 1778 – 1839) was a Portuguese politician, navy officer, diplomat and colonial administrator. He was the Portuguese plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. While at the Congress he signed a number of treaties and documents on behalf of Prince Regent John of Portugal including the Declaration of the Powers, on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, on 8 February 1815. He was governor of the Portuguese colony Maranhão (northern Brazil) between 1804 and 1806, and of Portuguese Angola between 1807 and 1810. He was created count of Porto Santo on 26 October 1823.

References

  1. ^ Albano da Silveira Pinto (1883). "Resenha das Familias Titulares e Grandes de Portugal - Tomo II". pp. 338–39.
  2. Hogg, Peter C. (1973), The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles, Cass Library of African Studies, vol. 137, Routledge, p. 380, ISBN 9780714627755
  3. ^ "The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time …". T.C. Hansard. 1816. pp. 200–201.
  4. "Brazil-Maranhão". worldstatesmen.org.
  5. "Angola". worldstatesmen.org.
Governors-general and Viceroys of Portuguese America
State of Brazil
(1549-1815)		Tomé de Sousa • Duarte da Costa • Mem de Sá • Luís de Brito e Almeida • Lourenço da Veiga • Manuel Teles Barreto • Francisco de Sousa • Diogo Botelho • Diogo de Meneses e Sequeira • Gaspar de Sousa • Luís de Sousa • Diogo de Mendonça Furtado • Matias de Albuquerque • Francisco de Moura Rolim • Diogo Luís de Oliveira • Pedro da Silva • Fernando de Mascarenhas • António Teles da Silva • António Teles de Meneses • João Rodrigues de Vasconcelos e Sousa • Jerónimo de Ataíde • Francisco Barreto de Meneses • Vasco de Mascarenhas • Alexandre de Sousa Freire • Afonso Furtado de Castro de Mendonça • Roque da Costa Barreto • António Luís de Sousa Telo de Meneses • Matias da Cunha •António Luís Coutinho da Câmara • João de Lencastre • Rodrigo da Costa • Luís César de Meneses • Lourenço de Almada • Pedro de Vasconcelos e Sousa • Pedro António de Noronha • Sancho de Faro e Sousa • Vasco Fernandes César de Meneses • André de Melo e Castro • Luís Pedro Peregrino de Carvalho e Ataíde • António de Almeida Soares Portugal • António Álvares da Cunha • António Rolim de Moura Tavares • Luís de Almeida Silva Mascarenhas • Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa • José Luís de Castro • Fernando José de Portugal e Castro • Marcos de Noronha e Brito
State of Maranhão
(1621-1751)		Domingos da Costa Machado • António Moniz Barreiros Filho • António Coelho de Carvalho • Jácome Raimundo de Noronha • Bento Maciel Parente • Pedro de Albuquerque Melo • Francisco Coelho de Carvalho • Luís de Magalhães • André Vidal de Negreiros • Pedro de Mello • Rui Vaz de Siqueira • António de Albuquerque Velho • Pedro César de Meneses • Inácio Coelho da Silva • Francisco de Sá de Meneses • Gomes Freire de Andrade • Artur de Sá de Meneses • António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho • Manuel Rolim de Moura Tavares • João Velasco de Molina • Cristóvão da Costa Freire • Bernardo Pereira de Berredo • Alexandre de Sousa Freire • José da Serra • João de Abreu Castelo Branco • José da Serra • Francisco Pedro de Mendonça Gorjão •
State of Grão-Pará and
Maranhão (1751-1772)		Luís de Vasconcelos Lobo • Severino de Faria • Gonçalo Lobato e Sousa • Joaquim de Mello e Póvoas • Joaquim de Mello e Póvoas • António de Sales e Noronha • José Teles da Silva • Fernando Pereira Leite de Foios • Fernando António Soares de Noronha • Diogo de Sousa • António de Saldanha da Gama • Francisco de Mello Câmara • José Tomás de Meneses • Paulo José da Silva Gama •
State of Maranhão
and Piauí (1772-1775)		Joaquim de Mello e Póvoas
State of Grão-Pará
and Rio Negro
(1772-1775)		João Pereira Caldas


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