Borges de Medeiros
…a total of 25 years (1898–1908 and 1913–1928), during the period of Brazilian history known as the República Velha. He "inherited" the presidency from Júlio de Castilhos, the local dictator against whom the 1893 Federalist Revolution had been fought. Supporters of Borges de Medeiros were known as borgistas. Medeiros was…