Heather Duval
11-29-2017, 04:33 AM
André Pinto Rebouças (13 January 1838 – 9 April 1898) was a Brazilian military engineer , abolitionist and inventor , son of Antônio Pereira Rebouças (1798–1880) and Carolina Pinto Rebouças. Lawyer, member of Parliament (representing the Brazilian state of Bahia) and an adviser to Pedro II of Brazil, his father was the son of a manumitted slave and a Portuguese tailor. His brothers Antônio Pereira Rebouças Filho and José Rebouças were also engineers.
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