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Latin American presidential inaugurations: Brazil, 1891.
Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca became the first president of the Brazilian Republic in 1891 after the overthrow of the country’s imperial government. His swearing-in was re-imagined in this 1925 painting by Eliseu Visconti.
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