Altino Arantes Marques

During his administration, the second artificial valorization (price setting) of coffee was promoted (the first was in 1906, by the Tabuaté Convention). With the frost of 1918, this product, doubled in price in the Santos' Port, giving the Altino Arantes government much revenue. With the reduction in production, it was possible to put the price premium into the world market, allowing the government to take control of the Sorocaban Railroad from a North-American group.

Between 1921 and 1930 Altino Arantes was a federal deputy again. In 1947 he was a constituent deputy and, again, a federal deputy. He was a member of the Republican Party, and ran for Vice President of Brazil as Cristiano Machado's running-mate in the 1950 Brazilian presidential election, coming third with 24.4% of the vote. He was the first President of the Banespa, became a member and President of the Paulist Academy of Words and member of the Historic and Geographic Institution of São Paulo. He died in São Paulo in 1965.

Outside São Paulo Arantes is largely unknown, although his administration was amongst the more successful of the Brazilian Old Republic.

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