Court. Augusto Pestana is grandfather to the Brazilian engineer and corporate leader João Augusto Chagas Pestana, first Chairman of the Board of the power utility Rio Grande Energia, and great-grandfather to the Brazilian socialist leader Vera Sílvia Magalhães, one of the main figures of the armed resistance against the military dictatorship of 1964-1985, and to Carlos Pestana Neto, former Minister-Chief of Staff of the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul. References External links Municipality of Augusto Pestana (in Portuguese only) Director Pestana Anthropological Museum (in Portuguese only) Augusto Pestana School (in Portuguese only) Family origins of Augusto Pestana (in Portuguese only) 1868 births 1934 deaths Mayors of places in Brazil Republican Party of Rio Grande do Sul politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Rio Grande do Sul