Prime Minister of Portugal. Liberato Damião Ribeiro Pinto was a national military figure as well as a politician. He studied Infantry at the Army School. In 1905 he married Maria Augusta Supico, with whom he had 2 children, having divorced her in 1934, marrying twice more. With the establishment of the Republic in 1910, Pinto was elevated to the direction of the Institution of Army Pupils and later became a professor at the War School, teaching new military tactics to future combatants of the First World War. In 1915, he joined the expeditionary campaigns to Mozambique, where he fought the Germans, returning to Portugal in 1917. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party, having been involved in numerous conspiracies, even being instructed to kidnap President Sidónio Pais, which he failed, and ended up imprisoned in the Graça Fort in Elvas, being released in early 1919. Mobilized to fight the monarchical coup attempts, it was at that time that he integrated the most radicalized part of the Army, having been notable for its radical reorganization. With members of the Cabinet of the Minister of War, he suppressed several strikes and insurrections, receiving several commendations. He was commissioned by Prime Minister Domingos Leite Pereira to reorganize the National Republican Guard (GNR), having been appointed its Chief of Staff, and also elected deputy for the Aljustrel circle, in June 1919. As Chief of Staff of the GNR, he managed to impose discipline, which it had been lacking, much due to sectarianism and the provision of modern weaponry, making the GNR a military force stronger than the Portuguese Army itself, making Liberato Ribeiro Pinto an extremely influential man, even managing to prevent the inauguration of the Fernandes Costa government, reaching the point of being invited to be Prime Minister in November 1920, having governed moderately, but the great political and economic instability caused the government to fall after 3 months. With the fall of his government, he was the target of numerous accusations of corruption and abuse of power, illicit enrichment, among others, which culminated in his resignation as Chief of Staff of the GNR. He was eventually arrested in the "case of the Greek trader," in which Pinto's wife had signed a deed, with Pinto channeling public funds to the Greek trader. He was sentenced to a year of inactivity in Elvas, a sentence that was much criticized by both parties, which contributed to the events of the "Bloody Night" of 1921, and was later deported to the Azores, returning to the mainland with the promise to abandon political life, going on to teach at the Industrial School of Lisbon and to be a small merchant. After the May 28, 1926 coup that established the National Dictatorship he was banned from teaching at official schools and forced to abandoned public life. He spent the last years of his life with various personal, family and financial problems, which completely alienated him from his family and friends until his death.