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

Biography

Coimbra was born in an '' engenho'' in Barreiros,

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, to farming Portuguese João Coimbra and Francisca de Albuquerque Belo Coimbra. He obtained a law degree at the

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in 1892, and became mayor of his birthplace in 1894. On 10 January 1895, he was elected a state deputy to the

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, and was the youngest person to be elected to the Chamber of Deputies until 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. He get away from politics in 1912, only to return as deputy federal from 1915 to 1922. He also occupied the position of the

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during

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government (1919–1922) after becoming

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in 1922. As Vice President, he also served as the President of the Senate. After leaving office in 1926, he took office of the state of Pernambuco, governing until the

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. Then, he exiled himself in Lisbon along with his secretary

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; after an amnesty he returned to Brazil in 1934, and died in

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on 9 November 1937. His corpse was taken to Pernambuco and veiled at Palácio Joaquim Nabuco.

References

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