The First Brazilian Senate met on 6 May 1826, at noon, where 31 senators witnessed the creation of the House. Of the 50 senators with life tenure chosen by the 19 provinces and the Emperor, nine were judges, seven came from the Church, four from the Army, in addition to two doctors, one lawyer and four landowners. Almost half (23) would be raised to life peerage over time as barons, viscounts and marquises.

At that time, seats were distributed proportionally to the population of each province.

Senators I — Province of Pará

José Joaquim Nabuco de Araújo (later Baron of Itapoã)

II — Província of Maranhão

João Inácio da Cunha (later Baron and Viscount of Alcântara) Patrício José de Almeida e Silva, lawyer

III — Province of Piauí

Luís José de Oliveira Mendes (later Baron of Monte Santo)

IV — Province of Ceará

João Antônio Rodrigues de Carvalho, magistrate Domingos da Mota Teixeira, ecclesiastic Pedro José da Costa Barros, senior Army officer João Carlos Augusto de Oyenhausen-Gravenburg (later Viscount and Marquis of Aracati)

V — Province of Rio Grande do Norte

Afonso de Albuquerque Maranhão, landowner

VI — Province of Paraíba do Norte

Estêvão José Carneiro da Cunha, Army officer João Severiano Maciel da Costa (later Viscount and Marquis of Queluz)

VII — Province of Pernambuco

José Carlos Mayrink da Silva Ferrão, landowner Antônio José Duarte de Araújo Gondim, magistrate Bento Barroso Pereira, brigadier José Inácio Borges, brigadier José Joaquim de Carvalho, doctor Antônio Luís Pereira da Cunha (later Viscount and Marquis of Caravelas)

VIII — Province of Alagoas

Nuno Eugênio Lóssio e Seiblitz, magistrate Felisberto Caldeira Brant Pontes (later Viscount and Marquis of Barbacena)

IX — Province of Bahia

Francisco Carneiro de Campos, magistrate José Joaquim Carneiro de Campos (later Viscount and Marquis of Caravelas) Luís José de Carvalho e Melo (later Viscount of Cachoeira) José da Silva Lisboa (later Baron and Viscount of Cairu) Domingos Borges de Barros (later Baron and Viscount of Pedra Branca) Clemente Ferreira França (later Viscount and Marquis of Nazaré)

X — Province of Sergipe

José Teixeira da Mata Bacelar, magistrate

XI — Province of Espírito Santo

Francisco dos Santos Pinto, ecclesiastic

XII — Province of Minas Gerais

Manuel Ferreira from Câmara Bittencourt Aguiar e Sá, landowner José Teixeira da Fonseca Vasconcelos (later Baron and Viscount Caeté) Estêvão Ribeiro de Resende (later Baron, Count and Marquis of Valença) Manuel Jacinto Nogueira da Gama (later Baron and Marquis of Baependi) João Gomes da Silveira Mendonça (later Viscount of Fanado and Marquis of Sabará) João Evangelista de Faria Lobato, magistrate Antônio Gonçalves Gomide, doctor Jacinto Furtado de Mendonça, owner Marcos Antônio Monteiro de Barros, ecclesiastic Sebastião Luiz Tinoco da Silva, magistrate

XIII — Province of São Paulo

Lucas Antônio Monteiro de Barros (later Baron and Viscount of Congonhas do Campo) Francisco de Assis Mascarenhas (later Count and Marquis of São João da Palma) Nuno Eugênio Lóssio e Seiblitz, magistrate João Ferreira de Oliveira Bueno, ecclesiastic

XIV — Province of Rio de Janeiro

Mariano José Pereira da Fonseca (later Viscount and Marquês de Maricá) Francisco Vilela Barbosa (later Viscount and Marquis of Paranaguá) José Egídio Álvares de Almeida (later Baron, Viscount and Marquis of Santo Amaro) José Caetano Ferreira de Aguiar, ecclesiastic

XV — Province of Santa Catarina

Lourenço Rodrigues de Andrade, ecclesiastic

XVI —Province of São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul

Luís Correia Teixeira de Bragança, magistrate

XVII — Province of Mato Grosso

Caetano Pinto de Miranda Montenegro (later Viscount and Marquis of Praia Grande)

XVIII — Province of Goiás

Francisco Maria Gordilho Veloso de Barbuda (later Baron of Pati do Alferes, Viscount of Lorena and Marquis of Jacarepaguá)

XIX — Província Cisplatina

D. Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, ecclesiastic

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