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Afranio de Melo Franco
Afrânio Camorim Jacaúna de Otingi de Melo Franco (25 February 1870 – 1 January 1943) was a Brazilian politician and diplomat.

Early life and ancestry
The son of Virgílio Martins de Melo Franco and Ana Leopoldina de Melo Franco, Afrânio was born in Paracatu, Minas Gerais, on 25 February 1870. He was a descendant of Francisco de Melo Franco, a physician and writer from Colonial Brazil. Franco's paternal grandmother, Antônia de Melo Franco, was the sister of Manuel de Melo Franco, one of the leaders of the liberal rebellion that broke out in Minas Gerais in 1842 and general deputy in the Empire of Brazil.

Franco began his studies in the Colégio da Conceição, in the town of São João del-Rei, and in the Colégio Abílio, in Barbacena. In 1887 he joined the Faculty of Law of São Paulo. There, together with his friend Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada, he adhered to the republican movement that was beginning to grow in Brazil.

Early life
Alexandrino Faria de Alencar was born on 12 October 1848 in Rio Pardo. He was the son of Alexandrino de Melo Alencar, a captain of the Imperial Brazilian Army, and Ana Ubaldina Faria de Alencar. He was also a great-grandson of French general Pierre Labatut, who fought in the Brazilian War of Independence, and great-grandnephew of Bárbara de Alencar, who took part in the Pernambuco Revolution of 1817 and the Confederation of the Equator.

Sources communist uprising

 * Afonso Pena
 * Afonso Pena