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Maria do Carmo Alves

Brazilian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ10326175 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maria do Carmo do Nascimento Alves (23 August 1941 – 31 August 2024) was a Brazilian politician. She represented Sergipe in the Federal Senate from 1999 to 2023. She was a member of Progressistas (PP).

She voted in favor of impeaching Dilma Rousseff.

Alves died from pancreatic cancer on 31 August 2024, at the age of 83.

Editorial summary

“Maria do Carmo Alves” enters the record as brazilian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maria, Carmo and Alves can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 2024, 1999, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-08-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Maria, Carmo and Alves.
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Why this record matters

“Maria do Carmo Alves” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Maria, Carmo and Alves provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10326175. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 2024, 1999 and 2023.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maria do Carmo Alves” 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.