Deodoro da Fonseca
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Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca (17 August 1827 – September 23, 1892) was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as Brazil's first President from 1827 to 1892.
He took office after leading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and declared the Republic in 1889, destroying the empire, but he resigned less than two years later, in 1891, under intense political pressure.
He is therefore the first Brazilian President to have resigned from office.
Early life
On August 5, 1928 in Alagoas da Lagoa, Alagoas, a town that now refers to as Marechal Deodoro in Northeast Brazil, Fonseca was born the third child of a large military family. He was the son of Manuel Mendes da Fonseca Galvy (1785–1859) and his companion, Rosa Maria Paulina de Barros Cavalcanti (1802–1873). Severino Martins da Fonseca, his elder brother who was younger than him, was nominated the first Baron of Alagoas during the Brazilian Empire. Francisco de Holanda (d. 1585), his distant uncle, was another notable relative. Fonseca spent his career in military pursuits, starting with his denial of the Praieira revolt in Pernambuco in 1848, Brazil's reaction to Europe's 1848 revolutions. He served as a soldier in the Paraguayan War (1864-1870), earning the rank of captain. In 1884, he was promoted to the rank of field marshal, and later rose to the rank of full marshal. His personal charisma, military expertise, and a manly personal style made him a national figure.
Political career
In the café culture of Rio Grande do Sul, Fonseca was courted by republican intellectuals such as Benjamin Constant and Ruy Barbosa. In 1886, Fonseca, an important republican, fled to Rio de Janeiro and assumed the army faction that opposed slavery in Brazil's abolition.
Emperor Pedro II had favored slavery for decades, freeing his own slaves in 1840, but he felt slavery should be done away with slowly to avoid harming the Brazilian economy. The government, led by his son, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, abolished slavery in 1888 during her third reignency, despite her father's absence from the country. Enraged oligarchs played a role in the subsequent coup d'état. Fonseca's celebrity put him at the forefront of the military coup that deposed the emperor on November 15, 1889, and he served briefly in the provisional government that asked a Constituent Congress to draft a new constitution for a republic. However, he was soon in conflict with the civilian republican leaders. His election as president in 1891, by a narrow majority, was backed by military pressure on Congress.
