{{Short description|Former parliamentary chamber in Portugal}} {{Expand Portuguese|Câmara Corporativa|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox legislature |background_color=green |name=Corporative Chamber |native_name=''Câmara Corporativa'' |native_name_lang=pt |coa_pic=Coat of arms of Portugal.svg |foundation={{Start date|1933|04|11}} |disbanded={{end date and age|1974|04|25}} |preceded_by=Congress of the Republic |succeeded_by=Constituent Assembly |leader1=Eduardo Augusto Marques (1935–1944) {{small|(first)}}<br/>Mário Júlio de Almeida Costa (1973–1974) {{small|(last)}} |leader1_type=President of the Corporate Chamber |first_election1={{End date|1934|12|16}} |last_election1={{End date|1973|10|28}} |session_room=Parlamento April 2009-1a.jpg |meeting_place=São Bento Palace, Lisbon |constitution=Portuguese Constitution of 1933 }} The '''Corporative Chamber''' ({{langx|pt|Câmara Corporativa}}) was one of the two parliamentary chambers established under the Portuguese Constitution of 1933, the other being the National Assembly. Unlike the directly elected National Assembly, it had a purely consultative, rather than legislative role.
The creation of the Corporative Chamber was part of corporatist philosophy advocated by Salazar and adopted by the Estado Novo. Its function was to represent the various economic, cultural, social, and other corporations.
The Corporative Chamber met in the former Senate chamber of the São Bento Palace. It was composed of members elected by the various types of Portuguese corporations, including:
*Provinces and Municipalities; *Universities and Schools; *Trade Unions; *Economic Organizations and Employers; *Social Welfare Organizations.
==Presidents== The presidents of the Corporative Chamber were the following from 1935 to 1974:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://app.parlamento.pt/upload/Comunicar/Anexos/2015/N11/Estado.pdf|title=Estado Novo - Presidentes da Assembleia Nacional e da Câmara Corporativa|website=Assembleia da República|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428181343/https://app.parlamento.pt/upload/Comunicar/Anexos/2015/N11/Estado.pdf|archive-date=28 April 2018|url-status=|access-date=28 April 2018}} [https://archive.org/details/Estado_Novo_Presidentes_Assembleias Alt URL]</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! rowspan="2" | Term ! rowspan="2" | {{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! rowspan="2" | Portrait ! rowspan="2" width="180" | Name<br />{{small|(Birth–Death)}} ! colspan="3" | Term of office ! rowspan="2" | Political party |- !Took office !Left office !Time in office |- |I ! rowspan="3" style="background:{{party color|National Union (Portugal)}}; color:white;" | 1 | rowspan="3" | 80px || rowspan="3" | Eduardo Augusto Marques<br />{{small|(1867–1944)}} | rowspan="3" | 10 January 1935 || rowspan="3" | 10 June 1944 || rowspan="3" | {{ayd|1935|1|10|1944|6|10}} || rowspan="3" | National Union |- |II |- | rowspan="2" |III |- ! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|National Union (Portugal)}}; color:white;" | 2 | rowspan="2" | 80px || rowspan="2" | Domingos Fezas Vital<br />{{small|(1888–1953)}} | rowspan="2" | 25 November 1944 || rowspan="2" | 25 November 1946 || rowspan="2" | {{ayd|1944|11|25|1946|11|25}} || rowspan="2" | National Union |- | rowspan="2" |IV |- ! style="background:{{party color|National Union (Portugal)}}; color:white;"| 3 | 80px || José Gabriel Pinto Coelho<br />{{small|(1886–1978)}} | 25 November 1946 || 25 November 1949 || {{ayd|1946|11|25|1949|11|25}} || National Union |- |V ! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|National Union (Portugal)}}; color:white;" | 4 | rowspan="2" | 80px || rowspan="2" | Marcelo Caetano<br />{{small|(1906–1980)}} || rowspan="2" | 25 November 1949 || rowspan="2" | 8 July 1955 || rowspan="2" | {{ayd|1949|11|25|1955|7|8}} || rowspan="2" | National Union |- | rowspan="2" |VI |- ! style="background:{{party color|National Union (Portugal)}}; color:white;"| 5 | 80px || João Pinto da Costa Leite<br />{{small|(1905–1975)}} | 28 November 1955 || 28 November 1957 || {{ayd|1955|11|28|1957|11|28}} || National Union |- |VII ! rowspan="4" style="background:{{party color|National Union (Portugal)}}; color:white;" | 6 | rowspan="4" | 80px || rowspan="4" | Luís Supico Pinto<br />{{small|(1909–1990)}} | rowspan="4" | 28 November 1957 || rowspan="4" | 16 November 1973 || rowspan="4" | {{ayd|1957|11|28|1973|11|16}} || rowspan="4" | National Union<br />{{small|(renamed ''People's National Action'' in 1970)}} |- |VIII |- |IX |- |X |- |XI ! style="background:{{party color|National Union (Portugal)}}; color:white;" | 7 | 80px || Mário Júlio de Almeida Costa<br />{{small|(1927-2025)}} | 16 November 1973 || 25 April 1974 || {{ayd|1973|11|16|1974|4|25}} || People's National Action |}
==See also== *Chamber of Fasces and Corporations *António Júlio de Castro Fernandes
==External links== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=z3fgxOPSBb4C&dq=Corporative+Chamber&pg=PA135 Latin fascist elites: the Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar regimes, Paul Lewis, 2002] *[https://books.google.com/books?id=NLiFIEdI1V4C&dq=Corporative+Chamber+Portugal&pg=PA313 A history of fascism, 1914-1945, Stanley G. Payne, 1996]
==References and footnotes== {{reflist}}
Category:Defunct upper houses Category:Political history of Portugal Category:20th century in Portugal Category:Corporatism