Background
PESSÔA, Alfredo was born on February 26, 1895 in Camocim, Ceará, Brazil.
PESSÔA, Alfredo was born on February 26, 1895 in Camocim, Ceará, Brazil.
Educated Ginásio Ayres Gama (Recife), engineering school, University do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro).
Director of trade exposition, Rio de Janeiro, and assistant director of turism, 1933-1937. Director of distribution, Brazilian press department, 194ÍM3. Brazilian consultant, Office of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, 1944-1945.
Head of Brazilian Trade Bureau, New York, 1946. Press secretary, Brazilian delegation to United Nations, and adviser to Atomic Energy Commission, since 1946.