President of Brazil
Floriano Vieira Peixoto ( 30 April 1839 – 29 July 1895), born in (today a district of the city of Maceió in the State of Alagoas), nicknamed the "Iron Marshal", was a Brazilian soldier and politician, a veteran of the Paraguayan War, and the second President of Brazil. He was the first Vice President of Brazil to have succeeded a former President mid-term.