Salvador de Mendonça
Illustration — Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça (Itaboraí, July 21, 1841 – Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1913), known as Salvador de Mendonça, was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, diplomat and writer. He was one of the founders of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of the Republican Movement in Brazil. After being appointed Consul of Brazil in Baltimore in 1875, Mendonça was made the following year consul general of the Brazilian Empire in the United States, with residence in New York City.
Also recorded as Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça
Salvador de Mendonça

Mathew Benjamin Brady · Portraits of delegates to the International American Conference, Washington, D.C. 1889-1890, album. · Public domain
- Born
- Salvador de Mendonça was born on 21 July 1841. · Itaboraí.
- Died
- Salvador de Mendonça died on 5 December 1913. · Rio de Janeiro.
- Nationality
- Brazil.
- Occupation
- journalist, lawyer, diplomat, writer, jurist, poet, playwright and translator.
- Fields
- law, journalism, diplomacy and translation.
- Languages
- Portuguese.
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Illustration — Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça (Itaboraí, July 21, 1841 – Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1913), known as Salvador de Mendonça, was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, diplomat and writer. He was one of the founders of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of the Republican Movement in Brazil. After being appointed Consul of Brazil in Baltimore in 1875, Mendonça was made the following year consul general of the Brazilian Empire in the United States, with residence in New York City.
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After serving in that position for 14 years, in 1890 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary of Brazil to the U.S.
The recorded working language is Portuguese. The field of work recorded is law, journalism and diplomacy.
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