page_title: Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto / Biography / Career
caption_attribution_description: Image of Alfonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, Visconde de Ouro Preto (1836 - 1912), Brazilian politician, Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil in 1889 (the last Prime Minister during the monarchy)
context_page_description: Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, the Viscount of Ouro Preto was a Brazilian politician, and the last Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil.
context_section_description: Member of the Liberal Party, Afonso Celso was elected senator by the province of Minas Gerais and took office on April 26, 1879. He also held the positions of Secretary of Police, Inspector of the Provincial Treasury and procurator of the Treasury. Having been provincial deputy in two terms and general deputy for Minas Gerais four times.
  Still in the Empire, the viscount of Ouro Preto, convicted monarchist, embraced the abolitionist cause. As senator, he created a tax of 20 réis on the price of tram tickets, a fact that generated great agitation in Rio de Janeiro, known as the "Revolta do Vintém", in January 1880.
  He published, among other works, the squadron and the parliamentary opposition and Advent of the military dictatorship. He was awarded the Viscount's nobiliarchic title with greatness on 13 June 1888 by Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, who was acting as regent.
  He was Minister of the Navy and of the Treasury and member of the Council of State. It presided over the last Council of Ministers of the Empire. Assis Figueiredo was arrested on 15 November 1889 at Campo de Santana Headquarters, on the day of the proclamation of the republic, with the whole ministry, and then exiled with the Brazilian Imperial Family.
caption: Viscount of Ouro Preto wearing the ceremonial outfit of the Senate.
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