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Brazilian lawyer and politician

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Arraes and the second or paternal family name is Alencar.

Miguel Arraes


Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 February 2003 – 21 July 2005
In office 1 February 1991 – 1 January 1995
In office 1 February 1983 – 1 February 1987
Constituency	Pernambuco
Governor of Pernambuco
In office 1 January 1995 – 1 January 1999
Vice Governor	Jorge Gomes
Preceded by	Joaquim Francisco
Succeeded by	Jarbas Vasconcelos
In office 15 March 1987 – 1 April 1990
Vice Governor	Carlos Wilson
Preceded by	Gustavo Krause
Succeeded by	Carlos Wilson
In office 31 January 1963 – 2 April 1964
Vice Governor	Paulo Pessoa Guerra
Preceded by	Cid Sampaio
Succeeded by	Paulo Pessoa Guerra
Mayor of Recife
In office 1 January 1960 – 1 January 1963
Preceded by	Pelópidas da Silveira
Succeeded by	Liberato da Costa Júnior
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco
In office 1951–1959
Constituency	At-large

Personal details
Born	Miguel Arraes de Alencar (1916-12-15)15 December 1916 Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
Died	13 August 2005(2005-08-13) (aged 88) Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Political party	PSD (1950–1959) PST (1959–1964) PMDB (1979–1988) PSDB (1988–1990) PSB (1990–2005)
Spouses	Célia de Sousa Leão (m. 1945; died 1961) Maria Magdalena Fiúza (m. 1963)
Children	10
Relatives	Ana Arraes (daughter) Guel Arraes (son) Eduardo Campos (grandson) Luisa Arraes (granddaughter) Marília Arraes (granddaughter) João Henrique Campos (great-grandson) Pedro Campos (great-grandson)
Alma mater	Law School of Recife (LL.B.)

Miguel Arraes de Alencar (15 December 1916 – 13 August 2005) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Recife, State Deputy, Federal Deputy and three times Governor of Pernambuco.

Birth

Arraes was born in Araripe in the state of Ceará, but moved to Pernambuco after graduating from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law.

Imprisonment and exile

In the military takeover of the government of Brazil in 1964 Arraes was jailed and exiled. He initially refused to resign as governor of Pernambuco and was jailed by the military government in a political prison on the island of Fernando de Noronha. Arraes remained in prison for 11 months before being granted asylum in Algeria. He remained there for 14 years and returned to Brazil in 1979.

References

^ Cavalcanti, Luiz (2013). Pernambuco : uma história política. Recife: Edições Bagaço. pp. 133–138. ISBN 9788537309339.
^ "Obituary: Miguel Arraes". The Guardian. 16 August 2005. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017.
^ "Miguel Arraes de Alencar" (in Portuguese). Recife, Brazil: Governo de Pernambuco. 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

Political offices
Preceded byPelópidas da Silveira	Mayor of Recife 1960–63	Succeeded byLiberato da Costa Júnior
Preceded byCid Sampaio	Governor of Pernambuco 1963–64 1987–90 1995–99	Succeeded byPaulo Pessoa Guerra
Preceded byGustavo Krause		Succeeded byCarlos Wilson
Preceded byJoaquim Francisco		Succeeded byJarbas Vasconcelos
Party political offices
New political party	PST nominee for Governor of Pernambuco 1962	Party dissolved
Preceded byMarcos Freire	PMDB nominee for Governor of Pernambuco 1982	Succeeded byJarbas Vasconcelos
New political party	PSB nominee for Governor of Pernambuco 1994, 1998	Succeeded byDilton da Conti

v t e Governors of Pernambuco (1889–present)
José Cerqueira de Aguiar Lima José Simeão de Oliveira Albino Gonçalves Meira Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti Barão de Lucena José Antônio Correia da Silva José Maria de Albuquerque Melo Barão de Contendas Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti Barbosa Lima Joaquim Correia de Araújo Sigismundo Gonçalves Antônio Gonçalves Ferreira Sigismundo Gonçalves Herculano Bandeira Estácio Coimbra João da Costa Bezerra de Carvalho Dantas Barreto Manuel Borba José Rufino Bezerra Cavalcanti Sérgio Loreto Estácio Coimbra Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti Amaro de Azambuja Vila Nova Agamenon Magalhães Etelvino Lins José Neves Filho José Domingues da Silva Demerval Peixoto Amaro Gomes Pedrosa Otávio Correia de Araújo Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Agamenon Magalhães Antônio Torres Galvão Etelvino Lins Cordeiro de Farias Otávio Correia de Araújo Cid Sampaio Miguel Arraes Paulo Pessoa Guerra Nilo Coelho Eraldo Gueiros Leite Moura Cavalcanti Marco Maciel José Muniz Ramos Roberto Magalhães Gustavo Krause Miguel Arraes Carlos Wilson Joaquim Francisco Miguel Arraes Jarbas Vasconcelos Mendonça Filho Eduardo Campos Lyra Neto Paulo Câmara

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