Luis Alves de Lima e Silva (25 August 1803-7 May 1880) was Prime Minister of Brazil from 3 September 1856 to 3 May 1857 (succeeding Honorio Hermeto Carneiro Leao and preceding Pedro de Araujo Lima), from 2 March 1861 to 24 May 1862 (succeeding Angelo Moniz da Silva Ferraz and preceding Zacarias de Gois e Vasconcelos), and from 25 June 1875 to 5 January 1878 (succeeding Jose Paranhos and preceding Joao Lins Cansancao).
Biography[]
Luis Alves de Lima e Silva was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1803, and he fought in the Brazilian War of Independence and in the Cisplatine War and tutored the young King Pedro II of Brazil in swordsmanship and horsemanship. From 1839 to 1845, he suppressed several liberal uprisings against the conservative regime, and, in 1851, under his command, Brazil's military defeated Argentina in the Platine War. During the 1840s, Alves de Lima became a member of the Conservative Party and was elected senator in 1846. He served as Prime Minister from 1856 to 1857, 1861 to 1862, and 1875 to 1878, and he was made "Duke of Caxias" after leading Brazilian forces to victory over Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance in 1865-1870. Caxias witnessed both the zenith of his party and its slow decline due to internal factionalization, and he died in 1880 at the age of 76.