Career
He held a degree in Law and Social Sciences and was a prominent attorney in São Paulo Paulo. Married on 8 May 1894 in São Paulo Paulo, to Eulalia Maria Pinheiro de Sousa Campos (1869–1933), from Brotas. He was the youngest son of Jose de Sousa Campos and Maria Gertrudes de Sousa Campos, and a great-great-grandson of Barreto Leme and Sousa Siqueira, founders of Campinas.