Luís Alves de Lima e Silva,Duke of Caxias,nicknamed "the Peacemaker" and "the Iron Duke",was an army officer,politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. Like his father and uncles,Caxias pursued a military career. In 1823 he fought as a young officer in the Brazilian War for Independence against Portugal,then spent three years in Brazil's southernmost province,Cisplatina,as the government unsuccessfully resisted that province's secession in the Cisplatine War. Though his own father and uncles renounced Emperor Dom Pedro I during the protests of 1831,Caxias remained loyal. Pedro I abdicated in favor of his young son Dom Pedro II,whom Caxias instructed in swordsmanship and horsemanship and eventually befriended.
João de Deus Mena Barreto was a Brazilian general and politician who briefly served as the president of Brazil while being a member of the provisional military junta of 1930. Born into a historically military family,Mena Barreto took up a military career in 1890. He fought in several internal conflicts,including the Federalist Revolution,a civil war,the 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt,and a 1924 revolt in the North. With the Revolution of 1930 in Brazil,Mena Barreto and Augusto Tasso Fragoso orchestrated an uprising in the Federal District,overthrowing President Washington Luís and establishing the 1930 junta. After the junta transferred power to revolutionaries,Mena Barreto became the federal interventor for Rio de Janeiro and a mediator in the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932.
The order of precedence in Brazil is a symbolic hierarchy of officials used to direct protocol. It is regulated by Presidential Decree number 70.274 of March 9,1972,signed by former President Emilio Medici. The following order applies to ceremonies hosted by the federal government.
The Archdiocese of Porto Alegre is a Latin Rite Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Rio Grande do Sul state,southernmost Brazil.
Nelson Azevedo Jobim is a Brazilian jurist,politician and businessman. He held the positions as congressman,Minister of Justice,Minister of Defense,Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF),where he was also president between 2004 and 2006. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and responsible for Institutional Relations and Compliance Policies at BTG Pactual Bank.
Garibaldi Alves Filho is a Brazilian politician and former President of the Federal Senate.
Nova Bassano is a municipality and a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul,south Brazil.
JoséMaria da Silva Paranhos,Viscount of Rio Branco,was a Brazilian politician,monarchist,diplomat,teacher and journalist. Rio Branco was born in Salvador,in what was then the Captaincy of Bahia,to a wealthy family,but most of the fortune was lost after his parents' deaths early in his childhood. In 1871,Rio Branco became the President of the Council of Ministers for the first time. He would become the Council's longest-serving president,and his cabinet the second longest,in Brazilian history. His government was marked by a time of economic prosperity and the enactment of several reforms. The most important of these initiatives was the Law of Free Birth,which granted freeborn status to children born to slave women. Rio Branco led the government that enacted this law,and its passage increased his popularity. His government was plagued by a long crisis with the Catholic Church that resulted from the expulsion of Freemasons from its lay brotherhoods. After more than four years heading the Cabinet,Rio Branco resigned in 1875. Following a long vacation in Europe,his health swiftly declined and he was diagnosed with oral cancer. Rio Branco died in 1880 and was widely mourned throughout the country. He is regarded by most historians as one of Brazil's greatest statesmen.
The Federalist Revolution was a civil war that took place in southern Brazil between 1893 and 1895,fought by the federalists,opponents of Rio Grande do Sul state president,Júlio de Castilhos,seeking greater autonomy for the state,decentralization of power by the newly installed First Brazilian Republic and,arguably,the restoration of the monarchy.
Paulo Renato Paim is a Brazilian steelworker turned politician. He served as a federal deputy from Rio Grande do Sul for the Workers' Party from 1987 to 2002. On 2002,he was elected Senator from the same state and re-elected in 2010. He also served as Vice-President of trade union center Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) from 1984 to 1986.
Manuel Marques de Sousa,Count of Porto Alegre,nicknamed "the Gloved Centaur",was an army officer,politician and abolitionist of the Empire of Brazil. Born into a wealthy family of military background,Manuel Marques de Sousa joined the Portuguese Army in Brazil in 1817 when he was little more than a child. His military initiation occurred in the conquest of the Banda Oriental,which was annexed and became the southernmost Brazilian province of Cisplatina in 1821. For most of the 1820s,he was embroiled in the Brazilian effort to keep Cisplatina as part of its territory:first during the struggle for Brazilian independence and then in the Cisplatine War. It would ultimately prove a futile attempt,as Cisplatina successfully separated from Brazil to become the independent nation of Uruguay in 1828.
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.
Júlio Prates de Castilhos was a Brazilian journalist and politician,having been elected Patriarch of Rio Grande do Sul.
Antonio Britto Filho is a Brazilian journalist and politician,who held the positions of Congressman,Social Security Minister,and Governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Paulo Brossard de Souza Pinto was a Brazilian jurist and politician. Born in Bagé,Rio Grande do Sul,he graduated in Law and served several terms as a parliamentarian in his state and in the National Congress as well. He also was a member of the Supreme Federal Court and the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil.
Rosa Maria Pires Weber is a Brazilian magistrate,former justice and former president of the Supreme Federal Court,former president of the Superior Electoral Court and former justice of the Superior Labor Court.
Vilson Pedro Kleinübing was a Brazilian politician who served as Governor of Santa Catarina from 1991 until 1994.
The 2022 Rio Grande do Sul state election took place in the state of Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil on 2 October 2022. Voters elected a Governor,Vice Governor,one Senator,31 representatives for the Chamber of Deputies and 55 Legislative Assembly members,with a possible second round to be held on 30 October 2022. Former governor Eduardo Leite,was eligible for a second term and announced that he's running for reelection.
The governor of Rio Grande do Sul is the head of government of the state's executive branch,assisted by his secretaries,whom he freely chooses. Elected by absolute majority in universal suffrage,together with the vice-governor,his term lasts four years;since 1997,reelection has been possible,and although all have sought it,none has succeeded. The current governor is Eduardo Leite,since January 1,2023.
Wilson Barbosa Martins was a Brazilian centenarian,lawyer and politician affiliated with the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB). For Mato Grosso do Sul,he was governor of Mato Grosso do Sul for two terms,senator and federal deputy for two terms,as well as mayor of the future capital Campo Grande.
