As 1st Lieutenant of the Cavalry Regiment of the Public Force, he actively participated in the São Paulo Revolt of 1924 against president Artur Bernardes, commanding the military occupation of the Luz station, acting in the siege of Catanduvas and covering the rear of the Prestes column up to Guaíra.

His actions at the head of the column dominated the popular imaginary and were the subject of legends about his person and his military deeds.

Placed, by inexplicable maneuvers and circumstances not yet clarified, at the head of the most important state in Brazil, he proved to be of an extraordinary, admirable incompetence, creating, in a single year of government, one of the most tragic event that there is memory in the political life of Brazil, also giving rise to a serious economic deadlock (deficit of 100,000 contos), and the deepest unpopularity against the "October Revolution" and having provoked in the people of São Paulo an equivocal and dangerous state of mind.

Our history does not record another period of failure as complete as that of Inexperienced Tenentism"!He supported the 1932 Revolution at the time of the outbreak of its uprising and, although he did not participate in the fighting, was arrested in the Casa de Correição in Rio de Janeiro together with others responsible for the uprising in São Paulo.

He is the author of the books "A Coluna da Morte" (The Death Column), in which he narrates the feats of his column in the interior of São Paulo during the 1924 revolt and "Os Fariseus da Revolução" (The Pharisees of the Revolution), where he criticizes the failures of the 1930 revolution.