Doctor, lawyer, deputy, high-ranking Brazilian civil servant born in Rio de Janeiro, who was from the National Treasury, president of Banco do Brasil, minister of Fazenda, senator of the Empire and Visconde de Inhomirim, and that despite his participation in Letters, journalism and politics were effectively his field of action. Son of a quarrelsome and quarrelsome priest, and of the mulatto woman, Maria Patrícia, a greengrocer in Largo do Rosário, nicknamed You Kill Me. After graduating in Medicine, he was enrolled by Evaristo da Veiga in the Society for the Defense of Freedom and National Independence, a moderating body, and led to write political articles for newspapers. Moving to Paris, he graduated in Law from the University of France, specializing in Economic Policy.
The friendship he had with Gonçalves de Magalhães, since childhood in Rio de Janeiro, must have brought him closer to Historical Institute of Paris, where, alongside the poet and Araújo Porto Alegre, he lectured on the state of science in the Brazil. He joined the Society of Invisible Patriarchs (1842), a secret, revolutionary entity that took up arms against the monarchy, which earned him exile in Portugal for a few months. Upon his return, he joined the group he founded (1843), the science, letters and arts journal Minerva Brasiliense. As a journalist, he wrote for the Jornal dos Debates Politicos e Literários (1837-1838), for the Despertador (1838-1841) and for the Maiorista (1838-1841).
In politics, he joined as a deputy for Ceará (1842-1844) and was later elected for Minas Gerais (1845-1847) and for Rio de Janeiro (1848-1850). Upon reaching the Senate (1870), he pledged himself to defend the freedom of the children of slaves, which, in the following year, earned him the commendation of the Order of Christ and, later, the title of Viscount. At the end of his life, ill and stricken by asthma, he again manifested his disobedience to the Empire by traveling abroad for treatment, without requesting prior leave. Returning to Brazil, he resumed legislative work, but his state of health took him back to the old continent and he died in Paris.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Order F - Biography - Brazil School
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