Tomás Antônio Maciel Monteiro, 1st Baron of
Itamaracá (1780 – November 22, 1847) was a Brazilian politician and
magistrate. He was born in
Recife, Pernambuco, to Antônio Francisco Monteiro and Joana Ferreira Maciel Gouvim.
In 1804, he was sent to the
University of Coimbra, where he graduated in law in 1809.
Returning to Brazil, he studied at the Faculdade de Direito de Recife. He married Ana Augusta Tavares Osório Maciel da Costa, daughter of
João Severiano Maciel da Costa, the
Marquess
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of
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He was the deputy and later vice-governor of Pernambuco from 1839 to 1840, and the minister of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court in 1842.
He was proclaimed the Baron of Itamaracá in 1843, in a post that would last until his death, in 1847.
Monteiro had a brother, named Manuel Francisco Maciel Monteiro, who was the father of
Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro
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, who would be the 2nd Baron of Itamaracá.
References
External links
Biography of Monteiro at the official site of Brazilian Supreme Federal Court
1780 births
1847 deaths
19th-century Brazilian politicians
Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
Brazilian nobility
Politicians from Recife
University of Coimbra alumni
Governors of Pernambuco (Empire of Brazil)
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