Magalhães Barata

Joaquim de Magalhães Cardoso Barata (2 June 1888 – 29 May 1959) was a Brazilian army officer and politician who governed the state of Pará three times, twice as federal interventor for the Vargas Government and once as an elected governor during the Fourth Brazilian Republic, a period where he also served as senator for the state.

Born in the Val-de-Cães neighbourhood in Belém on 2 June 1888, to Major Marcelino Cardoso Barata and Gabrina de Magalhães Barata, Joaquim spent most of his childhood in the city of Monte Alegre, Pará, enlisted in the military in 1904 and graduated from the military school of Realengo on Rio de Janeiro in 1911 to become an Aspirant in the Brazilian Army.

His election would not be upheld, as a habeas corpus impetrated to the Regional Electoral Tribunal put in question the legality of the elections, leading to a renewed federal intervention in the state led by Interventor Roberto Carlos Vasco Carneiro de Mendonça on 12 April 1935, and after efforts to pacify the region, new elections were held on 29 April 1935, where José Carneiro da Gama Malcher was elected governor of Pará.

As a senator, Magalhães Barata was a member of the Constitutional Commission, the Commission of the Armed Forces and the Subcommission of National Security, in 1947, he supported Major Luís Geolás de Moura Carvalho in the state elections for the state of Pará, which Moura Carvalho won, defeating General Alexandre Zacarias de Assunção. In 1950, Magalhães Barata attempted to become governor of Pará but was defeated by the same General Alexandre Zacarias de Assunção by 555 votes.

Literary works

Magalhães Barata, Joaquim. "Programas de Estudos Primários para as Escolas Noturnas" (Primary studies programs for night schools). 1933 (in Portuguese).

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Cunha, Coimbra. "Normas de um governo; psicologia de um administrador: aspectos sociais de atos e despachos do cel. Magalhães Barata" (Rules of a government; psychology of an administrator: social aspects of the acts and rulings of Col. Magalhães Barata). 1944 (in Portuguese).

Ohana, Dalila Nogueira. "Eu e as últimas 72 horas de Magalhães Barata" (Me and the last 72 hours of Magalhães Barata). 1960 (in Portuguese).