Epitacio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa (1865 to 1942) was a Brazilian statesman and legal scholar born in Umbuzeiro, Paraiba. He served as the eleventh president of Brazil from 1919 to 1922, having earlier held office as Minister of Justice, a justice of the Supreme Federal Court, Attorney General, a federal deputy and a three term senator for Paraiba. He led Brazil's delegation to the Treaty of Versailles negotiations and afterward served as a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1923 to 1930. He died in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, in 1942.
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Epitácio Lindolfo da Silva Pessoa was a Brazilian politician and jurist who served as the 11th president of Brazil between 1919 and 1922, when Rodrigues Alves was unable to take office due to illness, after being elected in 1918. His government was marked by the beginning of the tenentist movement that would culminate in the Revolution of 1930, which brought Getúlio Vargas to power.
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