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José de Alencar

Died in 1877

José de Alencar was born on 1 May 1829 in Messejana, near Fortaleza, the son of Senator José Martiniano de Alencar. A law graduate in 1851, he wrote for the newspapers of the capital and became editor-in-chief of one of them in 1855. A deputy for Ceará until 1877, and Minister of Justice from 1868 to 1870 according to the Chamber of Deputies, he was kept out of the Senate despite his election, which drew him away from politics. A forerunner in defending a Brazilian Portuguese, he died of tuberculosis in Rio on 12 December 1877.

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