Mineiro Republican Party
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The Mineiro Republican Party (Portuguese: Partido Republicano Mineiro (PRM)) was a Brazil
ian political party founded on 4 June 1888 and active during the República Velha. It represented the republican ideology of the agrarian elite of the state of Minas Gerais
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It was initially controlled by politicians of the Sul de Minas until Artur Bernardes moved it to the Zona da Mata
. It's executive committee (the "tarasca") was very powerful and took all the major decisions.
As with all Brazilian parties of the time the PRM was abolished at the advent of the Estado Novo
.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian political party founded on 4 June 1888 and active during the República Velha. It represented the republican ideology of the agrarian elite of the state of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
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It was initially controlled by politicians of the Sul de Minas until Artur Bernardes moved it to the Zona da Mata
Zona da Mata (Minas Gerais)
Zona da Mata is a mesoregion of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, situated in the southeastern part of the state, along the border of the states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo...
. It's executive committee (the "tarasca") was very powerful and took all the major decisions.
As with all Brazilian parties of the time the PRM was abolished at the advent of the Estado Novo
Estado Novo (Brazil)
Vargas Era is the period in the history of Brazil that lasted from 1930 to 1945, when the country was under the leadership of Getúlio Dornelles Vargas....
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Principal Representatives
- Afonso Pena - President of BrazilPresident of BrazilThe president of Brazil is both the head of state and head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Armed Forces...
(1906–1909) - Venceslau Brás - President of Brazil (1914–1918)
- Delfim MoreiraDelfim MoreiraDelfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro was a Brazilian politician. He was born in Minas Gerais state, and was elected vice-president in 1918. He assumed the presidency on November 15, 1918, due to the illness and death of former and now elect president Rodrigues Alves. However, Moreira suffered from...
- President of Brazil (1918–1919) - Epitácio PessoaEpitácio PessoaEpitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa was a Brazilian politician and jurist, and president of the republic between 1919 and 1922, when Rodrigues Alves could not take office due to illness after being elected in 1918...
- President of Brazil (1919–1922) - Artur Bernardes - President of Brazil (1922–1926)
- Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada - President of the state of Minas Gerais (1926–1930)