Jorge Tibiriçá Piratininga

Who was Jorge Tibiriçá Piratininga?

Jorge Tibiriçá Piratininga was a freemason, and the seventh "president" of the State of São Paulo and its second governor.

Jorge Tibiriçá Piratininga, the son of João Tibiriçá Piratininga, was born in Paris on what was to become the day of the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic. He studied agriculture and philosophy in Germany and Switzerland, and was president of the Republican Party of São Paulo of which his father had helped form. He was the second person to be named governor of the State of São Paulo following Prudente de Morais. Before Morais' nomination the state was governed by a triumvirate between Prudente de Morais, Joaquim de Sousa Mursa, and Francisco Rangel Pestana. In February 1904 he was elected to office for the first time as the 7th president of São Paulo.

His administration would be marked by an improvement in the states armed forces by bringing a mission of the Gendarmerie from Paris to serve as a new model for the "Força Pública".