User:Gusvbg/Antonio Martins Vilas-Boas

Antonio Martins Vilas-Boas (Guiricema, November 15th, 1896 - Brasília, November 10th, 1987)    was a Brazilian lawyer, professor of Civil Law and a justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil between 1955 and 1966.

Vilas-Boas belonged to a notable generation of writers, scholars and statesmen from Minas Gerais state, in Brazil, born between late 1800s and early 1900s, who stood out nationwide in poetry, literature, politics, law or medicine. Among the representatives of this generation were Abgar Renault, Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Clóvis Salgado da Gama, Emílio Moura, Guimarães Rosa, Gustavo Capanema, José Maria Alkmin, Juscelino Kubitschek, Milton Campos, Murilo Mendes, Pedro Aleixo, and Pedro Nava.