Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Campos Vergueiro
Regent of the Empire of Brazil
In office 7 April 1831 – 3 May 1831 Serving with Lima e Silva, Carneiro de Campos
Monarch	Pedro II
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Permanent Triumviral Regency (Portuguese: Regência Trina Permanente)
Minister of Justice
In office 22 May 1847 – 1 January 1848
Preceded by	Caetano Maria Lopes Gama
Succeeded by	Saturnino de Sousa e Oliveira
Personal details
Born	(1778-12-20)20 December 1778 Vale da Porca, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	17 July 1859(1859-07-17) (aged 80) Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil
Spouse	Maria Angélica de Vasconcellos
Occupation	Politician; landowner
Signature

Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro, better known as Senator Vergueiro (Portuguese: Senador Vergueiro) (20 December 1778 – 17 September 1859), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian coffee farmer and politician. He was a pioneer in the implementation of free workforce in Brazil by bringing the first European immigrants to work in the Ibicaba farm, which he owned.^[1] The contract was prepared by Vergueiro himself, establishing ownership of the production and other measures, mostly of an exploitive nature. Faced with this, the immigrants working in Vergueiro's main property, the Ibicaba farm, revolted under the guidance of Thomas Davatz, a Swiss immigrant and religious leader, who instigated the immigrant workers to grow their ambition to become small or medium-sized landowners, as they imagined they would be when they had left Europe.