Placido Moreira Dias

Plácido grew up in a time of great transformation in Brazil, marked by disputes between centralists and federalists. In 1893, he took an active part in the Federalist Revolution, a civil conflict that shook the Southern Region of the country between 1893 and 1895. As a Maragato, he proudly wore the red scarf, a symbol of resistance against the government of Júlio de Castilhos.^[2][3][4]

The Liberal Party was founded in 1928 by politicians from the old Federalist Party of Rio Grande do Sul, especially Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil and Raul Pilla. However, Plácido Moreira Dias also played a key role in the founding of the party, which advocated for a parliamentary system of government and federalism.^[5][6]

He married Mrs. Antonia Maria Lemes Gonçalves (1865–?) in 1885 in Quaraí, and they had at least two children: Januário and Abelino Moreira Dias.