 Manuel António Lino was one of the Francoist founders in the District of Angra, and belonged to the District Executive Commission of the Liberal Regenerator Party, organized in that city on 2 March 1904.It was this role that put him inline for the position in Horta.The successor to the Progressive Dr. Francisco de Andrade Albuquerque, the Regenerator Viscount José Bressane Leite Perry for the second time, found himself invested in the position of Civil Governor which he had held for a short time.