O Coronel Coriolano Alves de Oliveira e Castro: Trajetória como político e maçom em Caçapava, RS - 1891 a 1939

Abstract

This Master's dissertation in History was developed in the Research Line “Border, Politics and Society”, of the Postgraduate Program in History, at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), whose theme is: “Coronel Coriolano Alves de Oliveira e Castro: career as a politician and freemason in Caçapava, RS-1891 to 1939”. The objective was to carry out a documentary and bibliographic survey in order to construct the political trajectory of the freemason Coronel Coriolano Alves de Oliveira e Castro, in the period from 1891 to 1939, especially in the Caçapava region. Documentary research was carried out on documents from private and public collections as well as newspapers of the time. The time frame used was from the Federalist Revolution (1891) until his departure from the position of Mayor of Caçapava do Sul, shortly before his death in 1939. The dissertation was subdivided into two chapters that will work with the political trajectory, highlighting social relations, of power and relationship with the platinum frontier, in the land of the PRR leader Borges de Medeiros (Caçapava do Sul), of whom he was a co-religionist and later opponent. In the second chapter we will develop his trajectory and role in Freemasonry, in which he was the founder of the Guilherme Dias Masonic Lodge.