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Deodoro da Fonseca

His Excellency
Deodoro da Fonseca
Deodoro da Fonseca (1889).jpg
Marshal Fonseca in 1889
1st President of Brazil
In office
15 November 1889 – 23 November 1891
Vice President None (1889–1891)
Floriano Peixoto (1891)
Preceded by Head of State:
Emperor Pedro II
Head of Government:
The Viscount of Ouro Preto
Succeeded by Floriano Peixoto
4th Honorary President of the
Superior Military Court
In office
15 November 1889 – 23 November 1891
Preceded by Emperor Pedro II
Succeeded by Floriano Peixoto
94th President of the Province of
São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul
In office
8 May 1886 – 9 November 1886
Monarch Pedro II
Preceded by The Baron of Lucena
Succeeded by The Marquess of Abrantes
Personal details
Born (1827-08-05)5 August 1827
Vila de Santa Maria Madalena da Lagoa do Sul
(now Marechal Deodoro), Alagoas, Empire of Brazil
Died 23 August 1892(1892-08-23) (aged 65)
Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Political party Independent
Spouse(s) Mariana da Fonseca
Awards Order of the Southern Cross
Signature
Military service
Allegiance Empire of Brazil Empire of Brazil
Brazil Brazil
Service/branch Coat of arms of the Brazilian Army.svg Brazilian Army
Years of service 1843–1892
Rank Field Marshal
Battles/wars Paraguayan War

Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛɫ deoˈdɔɾu da fõˈsekɐ]; 5 August 1827 – 23 August 1892) was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the first President of Brazil. He took office after heading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and proclaimed the Republic in 1889, disestablishing the Empire, and stepped down little more than two years after his election in 1891, under great political pressure. He is therefore the first Brazilian President to have resigned from office.

Fonseca was born the third child of a large military family in Vila Madalena, Alagoas, a town that today bears his name as Marechal Deodoro, in Northeast Brazil. He was the son of Manuel Mendes da Fonseca Galvão (1785–1859) and his wife Rosa Maria Paulina de Barros Cavalcanti (1802–1873). In the period of the Brazilian Empire, his older brother Severino Martins da Fonseca was nominated the first Baron of Alagoas. Another notable relative was the Portuguese humanist Francisco de Holanda (d. 1585), his remote uncle. Fonseca pursued a military career that was notable for his suppression of the Praieira revolt in Pernambuco in 1848, Brazil's response to the European year of failed liberal revolutions. He also saw action during the Paraguayan War (1864–1870), attaining the rank of captain. In 1884 he was promoted to the rank of field-marshal, and he later achieved the rank of full marshal. His personal courage, military competence and manly personal style made him a national figure. As Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Fonseca was courted by republican intellectuals such as Benjamin Constant and Rui Barbosa in the café society of São Paulo. In 1886, alerted that the imperial government was ordering the arrest of prominent republicans, Fonseca went to Rio de Janeiro and assumed leadership of the army faction that was favorable to the abolition of slavery.


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