BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTS: Prudente Jose de Morais e Barros (1841-1902) Third President of Brazil 1894-98 and the first civilian President to be elected by direct popular ballot and the first to serve his entire term. Morais e Barros was the former Governor of the State of Sao Paulo. The city of Presidente Prudente was named after him; & Manuel Ferraz de Campos sales (1841-1913) Fourth president of Brazil 1898-1902. Former Governor of Sao Paulo and Minister of Justice. Two large 23 x 18 oblong folios, 59 cm x 46 cm, one page each, Rio de Janeiro, 16th December 1895 and 20th February 1902, to Cavalheiro Julio de Bombiero de Hremenae, the partially printed documents being the titles given by the President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil, acknowledging and granting His Royal Apostolic and Imperial Majesty the appointment of Bombiero as general Consul in Rio de Janeiro and in all the territories of the United States of Brazil. The titles bear to the upper heading the monogram of the United States of Brazil, with a star and the date of 15th November 1889. Signed by Morais e Barros and by Ferraz de Campos Sales respectively in bold black ink to the lower right corners, the first bearing an attractive and large paper seal affixed, and the second bearing an ink stamp. Both countersigned. G to VG