Afranio de Melo Franco
editAfrânio de Melo Franco | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 24 October 1930 – 28 December 1933 | |
Preceded by | Otávio Mangabeira |
Succeeded by | Félix de Barros Cavalcanti |
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Born | 25 February 1870 Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Empire of Brazil |
Died | 1 January 1943 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 72)
Alma mater | Faculty of Law of São Paulo |
Afrânio Camorim Jacaúna de Otingi de Melo Franco (25 February 1870 – 1 January 1943) was a Brazilian politician and diplomat.
Biography
editEarly life and ancestry
editThe son of Virgílio Martins de Melo Franco and Ana Leopoldina de Melo Franco, Afrânio was born in Paracatu, Minas Gerais, on 25 February 1870. He was a descendant of Francisco de Melo Franco, a physician and writer from Colonial Brazil. Franco's paternal grandmother, Antônia de Melo Franco, was the sister of Manuel de Melo Franco, one of the leaders of the liberal rebellion that broke out in Minas Gerais in 1842 and general deputy in the Empire of Brazil.[1]
Franco began his studies in the Colégio da Conceição, in the town of São João del-Rei, and in the Colégio Abílio, in Barbacena. In 1887 he joined the Faculty of Law of São Paulo. There, together with his friend Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada, he adhered to the republican movement that was beginning to grow in Brazil.
References
edit- ^ Brandi, Paulo. "Verbete Biográfico: Afrânio de Melo Franco". FGV CPDOC. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
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Alexandrino Faria de Alencar | |||||||||||
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Alencar, 1922 | |||||||||||
Minister of the Navy | |||||||||||
In office 15 November 1906 – 14 June 1909 | |||||||||||
President | Afonso Pena | ||||||||||
Preceded by | Júlio César de Noronha | ||||||||||
In office 14 June 1909 – 15 November 1910 | |||||||||||
President | Nilo Peçanha | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Joaquim Marques Batista de Leão | ||||||||||
In office 2 August 1913 – 15 November 1914 | |||||||||||
President | Hermes da Fonseca | ||||||||||
Preceded by | Vespasiano Gonçalves de Albuquerque e Silva | ||||||||||
In office 15 November 1914 – 15 November 1918 | |||||||||||
President | Venceslau Brás | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Antônio Coutinho Gomes Pereira | ||||||||||
In office 15 November 1922 – 18 April 1926 | |||||||||||
President | Arthur Bernardes | ||||||||||
Preceded by | João Pedro da Veiga Miranda | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | Arnaldo de Siqueira Pinto da Luz | ||||||||||
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Born | Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul, Empire of Brazil | 12 October 1848||||||||||
Died | 18 April 1926 Rio de Janeiro, Federal District, Brazil | (aged 77)||||||||||
Spouse | Amália Murray dos Santos | ||||||||||
Alma mater | Naval School | ||||||||||
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Allegiance | Empire of Brazil First Brazilian Republic | ||||||||||
Branch | Imperial Brazilian Navy Brazilian Navy | ||||||||||
Years of service | 1865 – 1926 | ||||||||||
Rank | Admiral | ||||||||||
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Alexandrino Faria de Alencar (12 October 1848 – 18 April 1926) was a Brazilian admiral and politician who served multiple times as Minister of the Navy during the Old Republic (or First Republic). He married Amália Murray dos Santos and had two daughters and a son: Armando de Alencar , who was a minister in the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil.[1]
Biography
editEarly life
editAlexandrino Faria de Alencar was born on 12 October 1848 in Rio Pardo. He was the son of Alexandrino de Melo Alencar, a captain of the Imperial Brazilian Army, and Ana Ubaldina Faria de Alencar. He was also a great-grandson of French general Pierre Labatut, who fought in the Brazilian War of Independence, and great-grandnephew of Bárbara de Alencar, who took part in the Pernambuco Revolution of 1817 and the Confederation of the Equator.
Sources communist uprising
edit- Costa, Homero de Oliveira (2015). A insurreição comunista de 1935 (PDF) (in Portuguese). Natal: EDUFRN. ISBN 978-85-425-0541-2.
- Afonso Pena
The inauguration of the railroad in 1858, painting by François-René Moreaux | |
System map in 1863 | |
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Parent company | Companhia Estrada de Ferro Dom Pedro II |
Locale | Southeastern Brazil |
Dates of operation | 1858–1889 |
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Track gauge | 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) Irish gauge |
Length | 0 miles (0 km) |