Pedro Soares Martínez

Pedro Mário Soares Martínez
Portuguese Minister of Health
In office 1962–1963
Personal details
Born	21 November 1925 Lisbon, First Portuguese Republic
Died	Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Political party	National Union

Pedro Mário Soares Martínez (21 November 1925 – 12 April 2021) was a Portuguese politician, academic, and lawyer.

Biography

With a degree in the Legal Sciences (1947) and Political-Economic Sciences (1949), he became a lawyer, admitted in 1950 to the Portuguese Bar Association. That same year he began an academic career as an assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon. In 1953, he obtained a doctorate in Political-Economic Sciences at the same University (1953), having risen to extraordinary professor (1956) and full professor (1958). He was the author of a Manual on Corporate Law (1971) and a Manual on Political Economy (1973), a subject in which he was recognized as an expert, and collaborated in numerous scientific publications, both national and foreign. He was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and at the Department of Law at the Universidade Portucalense, in Porto.

In addition to being a lawyer and professor, he was also a member of the Diplomatic Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1948-1956); consultant and business administrator, operators in the banking sector and insurance.

At the Lisbon Faculty of Law, he served as secretary (1958–1967) and director (1971–1974).

Supporter of the Estado Novo, Soares Martinez was attorney for the Corporate Chamber (1960–1968) and served as Minister of Health from 1962 to 1963 under the government of António de Oliveira Salazar.

In the period following April 25, 1974, he was a political chronicler for the newspapers O Dia, O Diabo, O Debate, A Rua and Diário Popular.

He was a full member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute, the Royal Academy of History, in Madrid, and of the National Academy of History of Venezuela.

Works

• Ensaio sobre os Fundamentos da Previsão Económica (1956)
• Sentido Económico do Corporativismo (1960)
• Manual de Direito Corporativo (1967)
• A Universidade Portuguesa e a sua Autonomia Institutional (1971)
• Manual de Economia Política (1973)
• História Diplomática de Portugal (1986)
• Manual de Direito Fiscal (1987)
• Filosofia do Direito (1991)
• A República Portuguesa e as Relações Internacionais (1910-1926) (2001)
• A Ditadura Nacional e a Política Internacional (1926-1933) (2015)