Conservative Republican Party (Brazil)

This article is about the defunct Brazilian party. For the defunct Spanish party, see Conservative Republican Party (Spain). For the various conservative parties of the United States, see Conservative Party (United States).

The Conservative Republican Party (Portuguese: Partido Republicano Conservador, PRC) was a Brazilian political party founded in October 1910^[1] to represent the republican and oligarchic ideals of agrarian elites of states discontented with the domination of the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais ("café com leite") during the República Velha.

Conservative Republican Party Partido Republicano Conservador
Historical leaders	Pinheiro Machado, Hermes da Fonseca
Founded	1910 (1910)
Dissolved	October 25, 1930 (1930-10-25)
Headquarters	Brasília, Brazil
Ideology	Republicanism Conservatism Populism
Political position	Right-wing
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Its main representatives were Rio Grande do Sul Senator José Gomes Pinheiro Machado^[2] and Marshal Hermes da Fonseca,^[3] who was elected president of the republic from 1910 to 1914.^[4]

The PRC declined from 1915 with the death of Pinheiro Machado.^[2] Like all political parties, it was finally abolished by the Estado Novo in 1937.^[5]