José Luciano de Castro Pereira Corte Real (14 December 1834 – 9 March 1914) was a Portuguese politician, statesman, and journalist who served three times as Prime Minister of Portugal. He was one of the founders of the Progressist Party, of which he was the leader from the time of Anselmo José Braamcamp's death in 1885, onward.

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José Luciano de Castro
Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 20 October 1904 – 19 March 1906
Monarch	Carlos
Preceded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Succeeded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
In office 5 February 1897 – 26 July 1900
Monarch	Carlos
Preceded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Succeeded by	Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
In office 16 February 1887 – 14 January 1890
Monarchs	Luís Carlos
Preceded by	Fontes Pereira de Melo
Succeeded by	António de Serpa Pimentel
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Born	(1834-12-14)14 December 1834 Oliveirinha, Portugal
Died	9 March 1914(1914-03-09) (aged 79) Anadia, Portugal
Political party	Progressist
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Castro was the head of government during the Pink Map crisis and the subsequent 1890 British Ultimatum. The crisis was one of the factors that proved decisive in the fall of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy on 5 October 1910.