Manuel Jacinto Nogueira da Gama, Marquis of Baependi

Manuel Jacinto Nogueira da Gama (8 September 1765 — 15 February 1847), Marquis of Baependi, was a Brazilian military officer, politician, translator and professor, who received a doctorate in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Coimbra.

Biography
Son of Nicolau Antônio Nogueira and Ana Josefa de Almeida and Gama. His brother José Inácio Nogueira da Gama married Francisca Maria do Vale de Abreu e Melo, baroness of São Mateus, generating from this union a son: Nicolau Antônio Nogueira Vale da Gama, viscount with Nogueira da Gama grandeur. He was the grandson of Tomé Rodrigues Nogueira do Ó, a trunk of the Nogueira family from Baependi, of which several Brazilian politicians belong.

Marriage
He married on August 7, 1809, Francisca Mônica Carneiro da Costa, daughter of militia colonel Braz Carneiro Leão and Ana Francisca Rosa Maciel da Costa, baroness of São Salvador de Campos de Goytacazes. They had four children: Brás Carneiro Nogueira da Costa e Gama (Count of Baependi), Manuel Jacinto Carneiro Nogueira da Costa e Gama (baron of Juparanã) and Francisco Nicolau Carneiro Nogueira da Costa e Gama (baron with honors of grandeur of Santa Monica), this future son-in-law of the Duke of Caxias. His granddaughter Francisca Jacinta Nogueira da Gama married Antônio Dias Coelho Neto dos Reis (Count of Carapebus).

Marquis of Baependi was the ancestor of historian Pedro Calmon.

Political career
He held several political positions from the end of the First Reign to the beginnings of the Regency period. He was the deputy of the Constituent Assembly of 1823 and was one of the signatories of the Brazilian Constitution of 1824. He also served as the senator for Minas Gerais in 1826, president of the province of Rio de Janeiro, president of the Senate in 1838, and Minister of Finance in several offices, even in the last of the reign of Dom Pedro I.

As a military man, he rose to the rank of field marshal. Great of the Empire, he was an imperial councillor and nobleman-knight. He received the degrees of dignitary of the Imperial Order of the Cross, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Rose and commander of the Imperial Order of St. Benedict of Avis. He received the viscondado with greatness by decree of 12 October 1824 and the marquisate by decree of 12 October 1826. The title refers to the mining town of Baependi.