Augusto de Vasconcelos
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| Prime Minister of Portugal (President of the Ministry) |
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| Order: | 57th (3rd of the Republic) |
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| Term of Office | November 13, 1911 - June 16, 1912 |
| Predecessor: | João Chagas |
| Successor: | Duarte Leite |
| Date of Birth | September 25, 1867 |
| Place of Birth: | Lisbon |
| Date of Death | September 27, 1951 |
| Place of Death: | Lisbon |
| Wife: | Laura de Albuquerque Correia |
| Occupation: | Physician (surgeon), professor and diplomat |
| Political Party: | Democratic |
Augusto César de Almeida de Vasconcelos Correia (Lisbon, 25 September 1867 - Lisbon, 27 September 1951), better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos (pron. IPA: [au'guʃtu dɨ vaʃkõ'sɛluʃ]), was a Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat. He graduated at the Lisbon Medic-Cirurgical School, in 1891, were he also taught. A republican since his youth, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the first Constitutional Government of the 1st Republic, whose President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) was João Pinheiro Chagas. He succeeded Chagas as President of the Ministry of another Portuguese Republican Party government, who was in power, from 11 November 1911 to 4 June 1912. He was, after this, minister in Madrid (1913-1914) and London (1914-1919), during World War I, that Portugal entered, in 1916 on the Allies side. He was the leader of the Portuguese delegation at the Peace Conference, in Paris, in 1919. Since then he became at the service of the League of Nations. He helped to solve international conflicts, like the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay in 1935. He was the President of the League of Nations, from 1935 to 1937.
| Preceded by: João Pinheiro Chagas |
Prime Minister of Portugal (President of the Ministry) 1911–1912 |
Succeeded by: Duarte Leite |
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