Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra
| Estácio Coimbra | |
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| 11th Vice President of Brazil | |
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In office November 15, 1922 – November 15, 1926 |
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| President | Arthur Bernardes |
| Preceded by | Bueno de Paiva |
| Succeeded by | Fernando de Melo Viana |
| President of the Senate of Brazil | |
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In office 1922–1926 |
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| President | Arthur Bernardes |
| Preceded by | Bueno de Paiva |
| Succeeded by | Fernando de Melo Viana |
| Governor of Pernambuco | |
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In office 1926–1930 |
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| Preceded by | Sérgio Loreto |
| Succeeded by | Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti |
| Constituency | Pernambuco |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 22, 1872 Barreiros, Pernambuco |
| Died | November 9, 1937 (aged 65) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro |
| Spouse(s) | Joana de Castelo Branco Coimbra |
Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra (October 22, 1872 – November 9, 1937) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician.
Coimbra was born in a engenho in Barreiros, Pernambuco, to farming Portuguese João Coimbra and Francisca de Albuquerque Belo Coimbra. He obtained a law degree at the Recife Law School in 1892, and became mayor of his birthplace in 1894. On January 10, 1985, he was elected a state deputy to the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco, and was the youngest person to be elected to the Chamber of Deputies until 1989, being a federal deputy between 1900 and 1912. As the president of the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco, he was designated Governor of Pernambuco in 1911 after resignation of the governor and the vice governor refuses to succeed him.
He get away from politics in 1912, only to return as deputy federal from 1915 to 1922. He also occupied the position of the Ministry of Agriculture during Epitácio Pessoa government (1919–1922) after becoming Vice President of Brazil in 1922. After leaving office in 1926, he took office of the state of Pernambuco, governing until the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. Then, he exiled himself in Lisbon along with his secretary Gilberto Freyre; after an amnesty he returned to Brazil in 1934, and died in Rio de Janeiro on November 9, 1937. His corpse was taken to Pernambuco and veiled at Palácio Joaquim Nabuco.
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