| Marquis of Baependi | |
| Office1: | Minister of Finance |
| Monarch1: | Pedro I |
| Term Start1: | 17 July 1823 |
| Term End1: | 10 November 1823 |
| Predecessor1: | Martim Francisco de Andrada |
| Successor1: | Sebastião Luís Tinoco |
| Term Start2: | 21 January 1826 |
| Term End2: | 16 January 1827 |
| Predecessor2: | Antônio Pereira da Cunha |
| Successor2: | João Severiano Maciel |
| Term Start3: | 5 April 1831 |
| Term End3: | 7 April 1831 |
| Predecessor3: | Antônio de Albuquerque |
| Successor3: | José Inácio Borges |
| Birth Date: | 8 September 1765 |
| Birth Place: | São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, State of Brazil |
| Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil |
| Module: | Coat of Arms of the Marquis of Baependi |
Manuel Jacinto Nogueira da Gama (8 September 1765 — 15 February 1847), Marquis of Baependi, was a Brazilian military officer, politician, translator[1] and professor, who received a doctorate in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Coimbra.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Son of Nicolau Antônio Nogueira and Ana Josefa de Almeida and Gama. His brother José Inácio Nogueira da Gama married Francisca Maria do Vale de Abreu e Melo, baroness of São Mateus, generating from this union a son:, viscount with Nogueira da Gama grandeur. He was the grandson of, a trunk of the Nogueira family from Baependi, of which several Brazilian politicians belong.
He married on August 7, 1809, Francisca Mônica Carneiro da Costa, daughter of militia colonel Braz Carneiro Leão and, baroness of São Salvador de Campos de Goytacazes. They had four children: (Count of Baependi), (baron of Juparanã) and (baron with honors of grandeur of Santa Monica), this future son-in-law of the Duke of Caxias. His granddaughter Francisca Jacinta Nogueira da Gama married (Count of Carapebus).
Marquis of Baependi was the ancestor of historian Pedro Calmon.
He held several political positions from the end of the First Reign to the beginnings of the Regency period. He was the deputy of the Constituent Assembly of 1823 and was one of the signatories of the Brazilian Constitution of 1824. He also served as the senator for Minas Gerais in 1826, president of the province of Rio de Janeiro, president of the Senate in 1838,[6] and Minister of Finance in several offices, even in the last of the reign of Dom Pedro I.
As a military man, he rose to the rank of field marshal. Great of the Empire, he was an imperial councillor and nobleman-knight. He received the degrees of dignitary of the Imperial Order of the Cross, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Rose and commander of the Imperial Order of St. Benedict of Avis. He received the viscondado with greatness by decree of 12 October 1824 and the marquisate by decree of 12 October 1826. The title refers to the mining town of Baependi.