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Pedro Ludovico
Edit Profilepolitician Member of the Senate of Brazil
Education
He went to Rio de Janeiro where he finished Medical School and was a friend of the writers, Lima Barreto and Olavo Bilac.
Career
Returning to Goiás he opened a clinic in Rio Verde, but he found life in the interior monotonous. Supporting the liberal revolution of 1930 he was nominated "interventor" in the state of Goiáson He was to govern the state for five periods, three as "interventor" and two as elected governor.
He was a senator three times and his struggle for the redemocratization of the country during the period of military rule after 1964 caused the government to strip him of his political office in 1968.
His iron will helped to build a new city, Goiânia, which inspired president Juscelino Kubitschek to build Brasília. Pedro Ludovico"s son was Mauro Borges, governor of the state during the military coup of 1964 and later senator for Goiás during several periods.
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He defended his thesis on hysteria, at a time when all of Freud"s theories were revolutionary.
