Maurício Campos de Medeiros

Maurício de Medeiros (1885-1966) was a Brazilian doctor, teacher, writer and politician.

One of his brothers, Medeiros e Albuquerque, was a prominent literary figure, and occupied, in the 1920s, the presidency of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

He resumed his journalistic activity in 1920, and in the following years contributed to A Gazeta in São Paulo and A Noite, Correio da Manhã and Diário Carioca in Rio de Janeiro.

He held the position of Minister of Health in the governments of Nereu Ramos and Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira.

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