José Maria Alkmim

José Maria Alkmim

José Maria Alkmim (alternative name: José Maria Alkmin ; born June 11, 1901 in Bocaiúva , Minas Gerais ; † April 22, 1974 in Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais) was a Brazilian politician who, among other things, was a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil) , Finance Minister from 1956 to 1958 and Vice President of Brazil from 1964 to 1967.

Life

Journalist, lawyer and member of parliament

Alkmim, son of Herculano Augusto de Alkmim and Sérgia Caldeira de Alkmim, first attended the Escola Professor Antônio Sá in his native Bocaiúva until 1916 and then the Escola Normal Américo Lopes in Diamantina , where he met his future wife Maria Dasdores Kubitschek da Fonseca, a cousin of his school friend and President of Brazil between 1956 and 1961 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira . He then worked from 1919 to 1922 as an employee of the telegraph office of Belo Horizonte and then of the telegraph office of Porto Alegre , before he began his military service in the 12th Infantry Regiment in 1923 and met Lieutenant Humberto Castelo Branco , who was President of Brazil between 1964 and 1967 . After completing his military service, he resumed his professional activity in Porto Alegre and in 1925 moved as a reporter to the State Press Office of the State of Minas Gerais (Imprensa Oficial do Estado de Minas Gerais) and became editor-in-chief of the government organ of Minas Gerais . At the same time, he began in 1927 to study law at the newly founded Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , which he graduated in 1929. He was then between 1929 and 1930 Vice Director and finally Director of the State Press Office of Minas Gerais and from 1930 to 1932 Rector of Ginário Mineiro in Belo Horizonte.

On November 14, 1933, Alkmim was a candidate of the progressive party PPM (Partido Progressista Mineiro) member of the National Constituent Congress (Congresso Nacional Constituinte) and represented the state of Minas Gerais until May 2, 1935. Following his resignation from 1935 to 1936, he was a member of the State Audit Office (Tribunal de Contas do Estado) and between 1936 and 1939 Minister of Interior and Justice (Secretário do Interior e Justiça) in the government of Minas Gerais during the tenure of Governor Benedito Valadares Ribeiro . In 1939 he took over the professorship at the Chair of Economic Policy at the Philosophical Faculty of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and was also State Secretary from 1939 to 1942 and director of the prison farm in Ribeirão das Neves . In 1942 he became a lawyer at the Banco de Crédito Real in Minas Gerais and in 1944 director of the company Empresas Grankas Reunidas SA , which belonged to the Indústrias Reunidas Fábricas Matarazzo (IRFM) group of companies founded by the Italian immigrant Francesco Matarazzo in 1891 .

Finance Minister and Vice President

Alkmim was again a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Câmara dos Deputados) on February 5, 1946 as a candidate of the Social Democratic Party PSD (Partido Social Democrático), which he co-founded on July 17, 1945 and was appointed as a representative of the state of Minas Gerais on March 11, 1951 as also re-elected on February 2, 1955. On January 1, 1956, he resigned his mandate after he was appointed Minister of Finance (Ministro de Estado dos Negócios da Fazenda) in the federal government of Brazil by his old school friend and now President Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira . He held this ministerial office until June 26, 1958. On February 2, 1959 and February 2, 1963 he was again a member of the Chamber of Deputies and again represented the PSD for Minas Gerais. During his parliamentary membership, he was a member of the Economic Committee (Comissão de Econômia) .

On April 15, 1964, Alkmim became Vice-President of Brazil (Vice-Presidente da República) and was thus deputy to President Humberto Castelo Branco, whom he had known since his military service in 1923, until he was replaced by Pedro Aleixo on March 15, 1967. On March 16, 1967, he was again a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the National Renewal Alliance ARENA ( Aliança Renovadora Nacional ) and was again a member of the Economic Committee. On June 15, 1970, he resigned his mandate and took over the post of Minister of Education (Secretário de Estado da Educação) in the state government of Minas Gerais. After the death of the MP Edgar Martins Pereira on April 11, 1973, he again became a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the ARENA on June 14, 1973 and was a member of it until his death on April 22, 1974. During this time he was a member of the Committee on Economy, Industry and Trade (Comissão de Econômia, Indústria e Comércio) . He was a member of the Institute of the Order of Lawyers of Brazil, OAB (Instituto da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil) .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Chamber of Deputies (Câmara dos Deputados)
• Biography on the homepage of the Fundação Getulio Vargas - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brazil: Vice-Presidents