Background
SALES, Apolônio was born in 1904 in Altinho, Pernambuco, Brazil.
SALES, Apolônio was born in 1904 in Altinho, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Graduated Escola de Agronomia de Sâo Bento, Pernambuco.
Assistant, state cotton service, Pernambuco, 1925. Professor., Escola de Agronomia de Sâo Bento, 1925. Inspector of sugar cane in Pernambuco, 1927, chief of this service, 1932.
Commissioned to study methods used in culture of sugar cane in Hawaii and other United States possessions, 1933. State secretary of agriculture, Pernambuco. National minister of agriculture, 1942.
Federal senator from Pernambuco, since 1946.