Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro (dewˈfim moˈrejrɐ da ˈkɔstɐ riˈbejru; 1868–1920) was a Brazilian politician. He was born in Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

 state, and was elected vice-president in 1918. He assumed the presidency on November 15, 1918, due to the illness and death of former (1902–1906) and now elect president Rodrigues Alves

Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves

Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, PC was a Brazilian politician who first served as governor of the State of São Paulo in 1887, and as Treasury minister in the 1890s. Rodrigues Alves was elected president of Brazil in 1902 and served until 1906....

. However, Moreira suffered from psychological problems, and left his duties to the ministers. Following the constitution, he called elections in 1919, and returned to the vice-presidency until his death. He was born to a Portuguese

Portuguese people

The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....

 father and to a Portuguese Brazilian mother who traced her ancestry back to the early settlers of Brazil.