Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa

Bronze statue in Princesa Isabel city

Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa (born May 23, 1865 in Umbuzeiro , Paraíba ; † February 13, 1942 in Petrópolis , Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician and President of Brazil from July 28, 1919 to November 15, 1922. He was a member of the Partido Republicano Mineiro and was elected by direct and general election.

Life

In 1873 the young Epitácio Pessoa lost his parents to the outbreak of smallpox . He was taught in a state school and was supported by his uncle Henrique Pereira de Lucena (Barão de Lucena), the governor of Pernambuco . He graduated in law in 1886 and served as prosecutor in Bom Jardim and Cabo (Pernambuco) from 1887 to 1889 .

After the proclamation of the republic, da Silva Pessoa initially took over duties in the civil service of the Paraíba province . From November 15, 1898 to August 6, 1901, he was Minister of Justice and Interior in the cabinet of President Campos Sales and worked on a draft for the Código Civil. From January 25, 1902 to August 17, 1912 he was a member of the Supreme Federal Court ( Supremo Tribunal Federal ). At the same time he was prosecutor of the republic from June 7, 1902 to October 21, 1905. In 1912 he was elected Senator to the Bundessenat of the National Congress for his home state Paraíba . He held this office from 1913 to 1919 in the 29th to 31st legislative period and then again, after his time as President of the "Old Republic", from 1924 to 1930 in the 33rd to 35th legislative period.

While he was representing Brazil at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 , he was elected President on April 13, 1919. During his reign, the price of coffee fell by around half, which had a strong impact on the Brazilian economy. The center of the opposition was the state of Rio Grande do Sul , whose politicians founded the Reação Republicana with those from the states of Bahia , Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro in order to prevent the “coffee oligarchy” from electing Artur da Silva Bernardes as the next president which, however, failed.

From 1923 to 1930 Pessoa worked as a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague , succeeding Ruy Barbosa, who died in 1923 . Pessoa was initially a supporter of Getúlio Vargas , but after the murder of his nephew João Pessoa , then governor of Paraíba in 1930, he resigned from his offices.

Pessoa suffered from Parkinson's disease for the last few years of his life . The city of Epitaciolândia chose him as its namesake.

Fonts

Obras completas. Rio de Janeiro 1955 ff., In 25 volumes

literature

Fernando Melo: Epitácio Pessoa uma Biografia. Idebia Editora, João Pesso 2005, ISBN 85-7539-219-0 .

Web links

CV in English - www.archontology.org
Literature by and about Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

^ Renato Cancian: Governo Epitácio Pessoa (1919–1922): Revoltas e agitação cultural. In: UOL dated June 5, 2006, updated July 23, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2015 (Portuguese).

predecessor	Office	successor
Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro	President of Brazil 1919–1922	Artur da Silva Bernardes

personal data
SURNAME	Pessoa, Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pessoa, Epitácio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Umbuzeiro , Paraíba
DATE OF DEATH	February 13, 1942
Place of death	Petrópolis , Rio de Janeiro

[1] Renato Cancian: Governo Epitácio Pessoa (1919–1922): Revoltas e agitação cultural. In: UOL dated June 5, 2006, updated July 23, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2015 (Portuguese).