The president of Brazil,officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil or simply the President of the Republic,is the head of state and head of government of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Armed Forces.
Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas in a military family,followed a military career,and became a national figure. Fonseca took office as provisional president after heading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and established the First Brazilian Republic in 1889,disestablishing the Empire. After his election in 1891,he stepped down the same year under great political pressure when he dissolved the National Congress. He died less than a year later.
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena,often referred to as Afonso Pena,was a Brazilian lawyer,professor and politician who served as the 6th president of Brazil from 1906 until his death in 1909. Pena was elected in 1906,the chosen successor of president Rodrigues Alves. Pena was the first politician from Minas Gerais to win the presidency,ending the series of São Paulo politicians who had held the presidency since 1894. Before his presidency,he served as the 4th Vice President of Brazil under Rodrigues Alves (1903–1906) after the death of Silviano Brandão. Pena was a monarchist. He was the only member of emperor Pedro II's cabinet to become president of Brazil and the first Brazilian president to die in office.
JoséMaria da Silva Paranhos Júnior,Baron of Rio Branco was a Brazilian noble,diplomat,geographer,historian,politician and professor,considered to be the "father of Brazilian diplomacy". He was the son of statesman JoséParanhos,Viscount of Rio Branco. The Baron of Rio Branco was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters,occupying its 34th chair from 1898 until his death in 1912. As a representative of Brazil,he managed to peacefully resolve all Brazil's border disputes with its South American neighbours and incorporate 900 thousand square kilometers through his diplomacy alone.
Prudente Joséde Morais e Barros was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who was the third president of Brazil. He is notable as the first civilian president of the country,the first to be elected by direct popular ballot under the permanent provisions of Brazil's 1891 Constitution,and the first to serve his term in its entirety. His presidency,which lasted from 15 November 1894 until 14 November 1898,was marked by the War of Canudos,a peasant revolt in the northeast of the country that was crushed by the Brazilian Army. He also had to face a break in diplomatic relations with Portugal that was successfully mediated by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was a Brazilian field marshal and politician who served as the eighth president of Brazil between 1910 and 1914. He was a nephew of marshal Deodoro da Fonseca,the first president of Brazil,and general João Severiano da Fonseca,patron of the Army Health Service. His parents were the marshal Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca and Rita Rodrigues Barbosa.
Nair de Teffévon Hoonholtz,mostly known as Nair de Teffé,was a Brazilian aristocrat,painter,singer and pianist,having been notably the first female cartoonist in the world. Married to Marshal Hermes da Fonseca,she was the First Lady of Brazil during the last year of her husband's presidency,from 1913 to 1914. She is to date the longest-lived of the first ladies of Brazil,and the woman who held the position of ex-first lady the longest,lasting 67 years.
The Republican Party of São Paulo,sometimes translated as the Paulista Republican Party,was a Brazilian political party founded on April 18,1873 during the Itu Convention and sparked the first modern republican movement in Brazil.
The Copacabana Fort revolt,also known as the 18 of the Fort revolt,was one of several movements coordinated by rebel factions of the Brazilian Army against the president of Brazil,Epitácio Pessoa,and the winner of the 1922 presidential election,Artur Bernardes. Acting under the figure of marshal Hermes da Fonseca and supporting the defeated faction,the Republican Reaction,the rebels tried a wide revolt in Rio de Janeiro on 5 July 1922,but only managed to control Fort Copacabana and the Military School of Realengo,in addition to,outside the city,a focus in Niterói and the 1st Military Circumscription,in Mato Grosso. They were defeated,but the revolt marks the beginning of tenentism and the events that led to the end of the First Brazilian Republic.
Marshal is the highest rank in both the Brazilian Army and the Brazilian Air Force,although the latter is titled marechal-do-ar. These ranks are equivalent to that of admiral in the navy. A marshal is distinguished by using five stars,which for a marshal of the air are in the approximate position of Southern Cross and for a marshal in the army,in the form of "X". The five stars of admiral are in the shape of a pentagon.
Manuel Luís Osório,Marquis of Erval was a Brazilian military officer,monarchist and politician. A member of the Imperial Army at the age of fifteen,he climbed all the posts of the military hierarchy of his time thanks to the soldier attributes that consecrated him as "The Legendary". He participated in the main military events of the late nineteenth century in the Río de la Plata region and is considered a hero of the Paraguayan War. He was declared patron of the Cavalry Branch of the Brazilian Army in 1962.
Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa was a Brazilian politician and jurist who served as 11th president of Brazil between 1919 and 1922,when Rodrigues Alves was unable to take office due to illness,after being elected in 1918. His period of government was marked by military revolts that would culminate in the Revolution of 1930,which brought Getúlio Vargas into control of the federal government.
The Proclamation of the Republic,Coup of 1889,or Coup of the Republic was a military coup d'état that established the First Brazilian Republic on November 15,1889. It took over the constitutional monarchy of the Empire of Brazil and ended the reign of Emperor Pedro II.
Events in the year 1910 in Brazil.
Events in the year 1911 in Brazil.
Virgílio Clímaco Damásio was a Brazilian Physician and Politician. He was governor of Bahia on two occasions.
JoséGonçalves da Silva was a Brazilian politician who served as the governor of Bahia in 1890.
João Manuel de Lima e Silva was a Brazilian military officer and revolutionary leader,being the first general of the Riograndense Republic.
