João Maurício Wanderley (or Vanderley), first and only baron of Cotejipe (Barra, when São Francisco de Chagas da Barra do Rio Grande, October 23, 1815 - Rio de Janeiro, February 13, 1889) was a magistrate and Brazilian politician.
He was born in 1815 as son of João Maurício Wanderley and Francisca Antónia do Livramento.
Wanderley graduated in 1837 as a bachelor of law at Olinda University in Olinda and was Minister of Marine, Minister of Agriculture, Foreign Minister and Minister of Justice. He was also Brazil's President-President of Brazil and President of the Banco Do Brasil from 1885 to 1888.
He is responsible for the adoption of the Saraiva Cotegipe Act in 1885, which granted freedom to slaves over sixty years.
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