Vasco Navarro da Graça Moura, OSE (born 3 January 1942 in Foz do Douro

Foz do Douro

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, Porto

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) is a Portuguese

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 lawyer

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, writer

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, translator and politician

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, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie.

He was a Member of the European Parliament

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 for the Social Democratic Party

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–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.

He married three times, firstly in 1964 to Maria Fernanda de Carvalho de Sá Dantas, secondly in 1985 to Clara Crabbé da Rocha (daughter of Miguel Torga

Miguel Torga

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) and thirdly in 1987 to Maria do Rosário Bandeira de Lima de Sousa Machado (b. c. 1951), former and first wife of António Carlos Guerra Raposo de Magalhães, who died in 2004).