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Delfim Moreira | |||||||||||||
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.jpg) Official portrait, 1918 | |||||||||||||
| 10th President of Brazil | |||||||||||||
| In office 15 November 1918 – 28 July 1919 Acting: 15 November 1918 – 16 January 1919 | |||||||||||||
| Vice President | None | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Venceslau Brás | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Epitácio Pessoa | ||||||||||||
| 8thVice President of Brazil | |||||||||||||
| In office 28 July 1919 – 1 July 1920 | |||||||||||||
| President | Epitácio Pessoa | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Himself | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Bueno de Paiva | ||||||||||||
| In office 15 November 1918 – 16 January 1919 | |||||||||||||
| President | Rodrigues Alves (elect) | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Urbano Santos | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Himself | ||||||||||||
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| Born | (1868-11-07)7 November 1868 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1 July 1920(1920-07-01) (aged 51) Santa Rita do Sapucaí,Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||||||||||||
| Political party | PRM | ||||||||||||
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| Children | 6 | ||||||||||||
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| Alma mater | Faculty of Law of Largo de São Francisco | ||||||||||||
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Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro (Brazilian Portuguese:[dewˈfĩmoˈɾejɾɐdaˈkɔstɐʁiˈbejɾu]; 7 November 1868 – 1 July 1920) was aBrazilianpolitician who served as the tenthpresident of Brazil.
He was born in theMinas Gerais state to aPortuguese father and to aPortuguese Brazilian mother who traced her ancestry back to the early settlers of Brazil.[1]
Delfim Moreira, elected vice president underRodrigues Alves in 1918, provisionally ruled the country as theBrazilian Constitution provided for new elections in case of disability of the president before completing two years in office. Rodrigues Alves never even entered office, for he was stricken by the "Spanish flu" and died on 16 January 1919. Delfim Moreira himself also did not have good health, suffering from some psychological conditions; therefore, his short tenure was known as "the republican regency" since the government Minister of Transportation and Public Works,Afrânio de Melo Franco, stood out in the president's decision-making.
Three days after the new government took over the country, ageneral strike hit thecapital and the city ofNiterói. The president ordered the closure of unions in Rio de Janeiro on 22 November.
On 21 June 1919, a dissident faction of theanarchists founded theBrazilian Communist Party. Four months later, the government expelled from the country about a hundred of them, mostly foreigners, who worked in the workers movement of the cities ofSão Paulo,Santos,Rio de Janeiro andNiterói, due to the discovery of an alleged plot aimed at overthrowing the government.
WhenEpitácio Pessoa was elected the new president, Moreira became his vice president. As vice president, he also served as thePresident of the Senate.[2] He died in the city ofSanta Rita do Sapucaí, on 1 July 1920. He was succeeded byBueno de Paiva.
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