António Marques Mendes
António Joaquim Bastos Marques Mendes was a Portuguese lawyer and politician.
Background
He was born in Porto, Paranhos, 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 was Mayor of the Municipal Chamber of Fafe, Deputy to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic and also a member of the European Parliament.