Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque (; 15 March 1882 – 9 February 1946) was a Brazilian poet, lawyer and politician. He was the last elected

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of the period known as the Old Republic, but never took office because the government was overthrown in the

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. Prestes was the only politician to be elected President of Brazil and then impeded from taking office. He was also the last person born in

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to be elected president until the election of

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in 2018. On 23 June 1930, he became the second Brazilian featured on the cover of ''

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'' magazine.

Early career

Prestes graduated with a law degree from the Law School of São Paulo (today the

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) in 1906. He married Alice Viana and had three children with her. He started his political career in 1909, when he was elected State Representative in

by the

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(PRP). He was re-elected several times until 1923, and became noted for his defense of the public employee in São Paulo. As a State Representative, he introduced legislation that created the Court of Auditors of São Paulo and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnology of the University of São Paulo. He was the author of the law that incorporated the Sorocabana Railroad in the São Paulo State patrimony. In the Revolution of 1924, Prestes fought on the Coluna Sul, with Ataliba Leonel and

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, expelling the rebels of the region of Sorocaba.

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