Augusto Leverger

• Name — Augusto Leverger • Office — President of Mato Grosso • Term Start — 11 February 1851 • Term End — 1 April 1857 • Successor — Albano de Sousa Osório • Predecessor — João da Costa Pimentel • Term Start1 — 12 May 1863 • Term End1 — 15 July 1863 • Successor1 — Albano de Sousa Osório • Predecessor1 — Herculano Ferreira Pena • Term Start2 — 9 August 1865 • Term End2 — 1 May 1866 • Successor2 — Albano de Sousa Osório • Predecessor2 — Alexandre Manuel Albino de Carvalho • Term Start3 — 26 May 1869 • Term End3 — 10 February 1870 • Successor3 — Luís da Silva Prado • Predecessor3 — José Antônio Murtinho • Born — 30 January 1802 • Birthplace — Saint-Malo, France • Died — 14 January 1880 • Place of death — Cuiabá, Brazil • Resting Place — Piedade Cemitery, Cuiabá • Nickname — Cuiabá's Breton • Allegiance — Empire of Brazil • Branch — Imperial Brazilian Navy • Service Years — 1825–1857 • Rank — Fleet Admiral • Commands — * 14 de Outubro • General do Rêgo • Commander of Arms of Mato Grosso • Battles — * Cisplatine War • Battle of Barracas • Action of June 16 1828 • Triple Alliance War • Invasion of Corumbá • Awards — * Commander of the Order of Aviz • Officer of the Order of the Rose • Knight of the Order of the Southern Cross • Party — Conservative

• Illustration — The surrender of the Argentine corvette General Dorrego, by Edoardo De Martino Leverger was born to Mathurin Michel Leverger and Regina Corbes in Saint-Malo in Brittany on 30 January 1802. According to his biography, written by Virgílio Correia Filho, he was a seaman since he was very young, having arrived in Brazil in 1824 because of that profession. In 1825 he joined the Imperial Brazilian Navy as a second-lieutenant, fighting in the Cisplatine War and commanding the bombard 14 de Outubro during the Battle of Barracas and the Action of June 16 1828 (being named Knight of the Order of the Southern Cross), and the corvette General Dorrego (renamed General do Rêgo), which was captured from the Argentine Navy in 1828. He arrived in Cuiabá, in southwestern Brazil, in 1830. He had been named to staff the navy arsenal being built there. In 1843, he married Inês de Almeida Leite, a widow. Via a decree from the Emperor Dom Pedro II, he was named a knight of the Order of the Rose in 1841; he was then a captain-lieutenant of the navy. In 1844, already a frigate captain, he was elevated to officer of the same order. Throughout most of his time in the navy, he was responsible for mapping Mato Grosso's river network. He also was briefly named consul-general in Paraguay after the isolationist dictator Francia's death. Some years before the Platine War started, Juan Andrés Gelly, who had previously been Paraguay's ambassador to Brazil, requested that Leverger be lent to Paraguay as an attaché to aid in reorganizing that country's fleet, but Leverger was then in command of the Brazilian Navy's ships in Mato Grosso, and there were worries about a war with Bolivia, so other officers were sent. When the Paraguayan War started in 1864, despite having already been retired from the navy, he was responsible for erecting the Melgaço Fortifications that defended Cuiabá from the Paraguayan offensive. Thanks to these efforts, he was granted the title of Baron of Melgaço in 10 November 1865. Before and after the war, on multiple occasions, he was named president of the province of Mato Grosso by the emperor. Overall, he was president of the province four times (two of these as interim president) and vice president once. He was a member of the Conservative Party and also of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute. He died in 1880 in Cuiabá.

Augusto Leverger is recorded with the occupation military officer. Recorded as politician, cartographer, military officer and writer.