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Alzira Soriano

Brazilian politician (1897-1963)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ8196874 ↗
Source-derived summary

Luísa Alzira Teixeira Soriano (April 29, 1887 – May 28, 1963) was a Brazilian politician who served as the mayor of Lajes, Rio Grande do Norte. In 1928, she became the first female mayor in Brazil and South America, at the age of 32. She was a widow and a mother of three daughters.

Editorial summary

“Alzira Soriano” enters the record as brazilian politician (1897-1963). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alzira, Soriano and Brazilian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1963, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1897-04-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alzira, Soriano and Brazilian.
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Why this record matters

“Alzira Soriano” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alzira, Soriano and Brazilian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8196874. VIAF identifies the subject as 68151749. The Library of Congress control number is n93900524. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1887, 1963 and 1928.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Alzira Soriano” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.