Ignácio Francisco Silveira da Mota
fl. 1849–69
Brazilian governor and sugar-cane planter. Born in Goiás. Took his degree at the University of São Paulo. Married into an established family of sugar-cane planters. Appointed president of several provinces: Piauí, 1849, then Ceará, and later Rio de Janeiro. Published articles on plants and agriculture.
Source
Needell 2006, pp. 125–6, 210.
Bibliography
Needell, Jeffrey D. 2006. The party of order: the conservatives, the state, and slavery in the Brazilian monarchy, 1831–1871. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
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