Estácio Coimbra

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Estácio Coimbra
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11th Vice President of Brazil
In office
November 15, 1922 – November 15, 1926
President Arthur Bernardes
Preceded by Bueno de Paiva
Succeeded by Fernando de Melo Viana
President of the Senate of Brazil
In office
1922–1926
President Arthur Bernardes
Preceded by Bueno de Paiva
Succeeded by Fernando de Melo Viana
Governor of Pernambuco
In office
1926–1930
Preceded by Sérgio Loreto
Succeeded by Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti
Constituency Pernambuco
Personal details
Born (1872-10-22)October 22, 1872
Barreiros, Pernambuco
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Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Spouse(s) Joana de Castelo Branco Coimbra

Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra (October 22, 1872 – November 9, 1937) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician.[1]

Biography

Coimbra was born in a engenho in Barreiros, Pernambuco to farming Portuguese João Coimbra and Francisca de Albuquerque Belo Coimbra. He obtained a law degree at the Recife Law School in 1892, and became mayor of his birthplace in 1894. On January 10, 1985, he is elected a state deputy to the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco, and is the youngest person to be elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1989, being a federal deputy between 1900 and 1912. As the president of the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco, he was designated Governor of Pernambuco in 1911 after resignation of the governor and the vice governor refuses to succeed him.[2][3]

He get away from politic in 1912, only to return as deputy federal from 1915 to 1922. He also occupied the position of the Ministry of Agriculture during Epitácio Pessoa government (1919–1922) after becoming Vice President of Brazil in 1922. After leaving office in 1926, he took office of the state of Pernambuco, governing until the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. Then, he exilates himself in Lisboa along with his secretary Gilberto Freyre; after an amnesty he returned to Brazil in 1934, and died in Rio de Janeiro on November 9, 1937. His corpse was taken to Pernambuco and veiled at Palácio Joaquim Nabuco.[2][4]

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Political offices
Preceded by Vice-President of Brazil
1922–1926
Succeeded by
Fernando de Melo Viana