Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
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Vice President | Delfim Moreira | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by | Venceslau Brás | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Delfim Moreira | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Guaratinguetá, São Paulo, Empire of Brazil | 7 July 1848||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 16 January 1919 Rio de Janeiro, Federal District, Brazil | (aged 70)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Conservative (before 1889) PRP (1889–1919) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Ana Guilhermina Borges | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves,
During this term he remodeled the then Brazilian capital, Rio de Janeiro, an effort punctuated by the 1904 "Vaccine Revolt". He was elected president for a second term in 1918, but died in the influenza pandemic before assuming power, on 16 January 1919. He was succeeded by his vice-president, Delfim Moreira.
Biography
Rodrigues Alves was born in the city of
He assumed his second mandate as state president in São Paulo from 1 May 1900 to 13 February 1902). On February 13 he resigned to run for Brazil's presidency.
He was elected to rule as Brazil's 5th president from 1902 to 1906. He distinguished himself as a great city planner and public financier. He applied his experience in the re-urbanization of the capital of the Republic, Rio de Janeiro.
He ran again for the presidency in 1918, won the election with over 99% of the vote, and was scheduled to take office on 15 November 1918. He was unable to do so because of illness, and he died on 16 January 1919, a victim of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918–1919.[2]
40 years later in 1959, his grand-nephew, Carlos Alberto Alves de Carvalho Pinto, assumed his title of state president in São Paulo where he was the president of the state for 4 years.
References
- ^ "Portal MF 200 anos — República". April 17, 2009. Archived from the original on April 17, 2009.
- ISBN 978-0-80473-222-2