After graduating, he spent many years working in administration but never stopped writing about history. Between 1946 and 1955 he was an editor at the CTT's Cultural Services and the National Information Secretariat and also a librarian at the Ministry of Overseas Territories. Taking on these roles, Alexandre Lobato showed he was not an opponent of the Estado Novo. He was actually a staunch supporter of the Estado Novo, especially when it came to the colonial Empire. He was part of a working group that travelled to Portugal's territories in India and took part in studies on the history of Portuguese India that attempted to provide Portuguese lawyers with a defence of the Portuguese character of Nagar-Aveli at the International Court in The Hague. This support given to the Estado Novo was then active and even partisan: he built a career in the Ministry of Overseas Territories from 1960 and was a member of parliament in the 8th Legislative Term from 1961 to 1965, before moving to Mozambique.

It was during this period in the 1950s and 1960s that he developed a very intense scientific activity, always on themes linked to the history of the Portuguese empire. We can't ignore the fact that Alexandre Lobato, as a historian, was always ideologically close to the regime and even supported and was subsidised by it. He worked for the Ministry of Overseas Territories and was a member of the União Nacional . His book História do Presídio de Lourenço Marques [History of the Lourenço Marques Prison] , written in 1949, had a preface written by Marcelo Caetano. Many of his books were published by the Agência Geral do Ultramar [General Agency of the Overseas Territories], where we can read the following right after the title: "This publication was authorised by order of His Excellency the Minister". In the preface to one of these books, he even goes as far as thanking Sarmento Rodrigues, then Minister for Overseas Territories ( A Expansão portuguesa em Moçambique de 1498 a 1530 [ Portuguese expansion in Mozambique from 1498 to 1530 ], Livro I, 1954, p. 13).

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