- Altino Arantes Marques
Altino Arantes Marques (
Batatais ,1876 —São Paulo ,1965 ) was a President of São Paulo. He graduated from theLaw College of the Plaza of Saint Francisco , in 1895. He was a member of thePaulist Republican Party . Before he became the President of the state of São Paulo, he was a federal deputy for two terms: (1906-1908) and (1909-1911). He was also Secretary of State of the Interior from 1911 to 1915.Presidency
During his administration, the second artificial valorization (price setting) of
coffee was promoted (the first was in 1906, by theTabuaté Convention ). With thefrost of 1918, this product, doubled in price in the Santos' Port, giving the Altino Arantes government lots of revenue. With the reduction in production, it was possible to put the price premium into the world market, allowing the government to take control of theSorocaban Railroad from a North-American group.After the Presidency
Between 1921 and 1930 Altino Arantes was a federal deputy again. In 1947 he was a constituent deputy and, again, a federal deputy. He was the first President of the
Banespa , became a member and President of the Paulist Academy of Words and member of theHistoric and Geographic Institution of São Paulo . He died at São Paulo in 1965.Legacy
Arantes outside São Paulo is largely unknown, although his administration was the more successful of the Brazilian Old Republic.
References
[http://www.galeriadosgovernadores.sp.gov.br/03galeria/galeria.htm Official gallery of the Governors of São Paulo]
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