Alfredo de Moraes Gomes Ferreira

Alfredo de Moraes Gomes Ferreira served in Brazil’s legations in London and Washington before taking charge of the American mission. He was promoted to first secretary in Britain in 1891 and transferred to the United States in 1892. In April 1903 he replaced Assis Brasil at the head of the Washington legation while the latter returned to negotiate the Acre settlement. ^{1, 2, 3}

Ferreira subsequently joined Brazil’s delegation to the Third International American Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1906. He signed measures on naturalization, international legal codification, and the Bureau of the American Republics. He worked in the same delegation as Joaquim Nabuco and Assis Brasil. ⁴