Júlio Prates de Castilhos (Cruz Alta

Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul

Cruz Alta is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cruz Alta.It is the birthplace of the writer Érico Veríssimo and of Júlio Prates de Castilhos, a journalist and politician....

, 29 June 1860 — Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

, 24 October 1903) was a Brazilian journalist and politician.

He was twice the govenor of Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...

 and was the principal author of the State Constitution of 1891 and a model for many future politicians of the region. He disseminated positivist ideas in Brazil.

The town of Júlio de Castilhos

Júlio de Castilhos

This article is about the town; see Júlio Prates de Castilhos for information about the politician for whom it is named.Júlio de Castilhos is a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its area is 1,120.8 km² and its population was 3,571 in 2003...

is named after him.