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List of Presidents of Brazil

This is a list of the Presidents of Brazil.

Table of contents

1 Old Republic 2 The Era of Vargas 3 The Second Republic 4 Military dictatorship 5 The New Republic 6 See also

Old Republic

• 1889-1891 Gen. Deodoro da Fonseca - Military dictatorship (proclameted the republic)
• 1891-1894 Floriano Peixoto - Dictatorship (after Deodoro's renunciation)
• 1894-1898 Prudente de Moraes (first civil elected president)
• 1898-1902 Campos Sales
• 1902-1906 Rodrigues Alves
• 1906-1909 Afonso Pena
• 1909-1910 Nilo Peçanha
• 1910-1914 Hermes da Fonseca
• 1914-1918 Venceslau Brás
• 1918- Rodrigues Alves (Died before assuming)
• 1918-1919 Delfim Moreira
• 1919-1922 Epitácio Pessoa
• 1922-1926 Artur Bernardes
• 1926-1930 Washington Luís

The Era of Vargas

• 1930-1934 Getúlio Dorneles Vargas - Temporary Government (after the revolution of 1930)
• 1934-1937 Getúlio Dorneles Vargas - Constitutional Government (after the constitution of 1934)
• 1937-1945 Getúlio Dorneles Vargas - Dictatorship (The Estado Novo)

The Second Republic

• 1945-1946 José Linhares - Temporary Government (after a coup d'êtat against Vargas)
• 1946-1951 Eurico Gaspar Dutra
• 1951-1954 Getúlio Dorneles Vargas (elected)
• 1954-1956 Café Filho, Carlos Luz, Nereu Ramos - Temporary Governments (after Getúlio's suicide)
• 1956-1961 Juscelino Kubitschek
• 1961- Jânio Quadros (renunounced)
• 1961-1964 João Goulart (also called Jango, Jânio's vice. Suffered a coup d'êtat)

Military dictatorship

• 1964-1967 Gen. Humberto Castelo Branco - Military dictatorship (after a coup d'êtat against Goulart)
• 1967-1969 Gen. Arthur da Costa e Silva - Military dictatorship
• 1969-1974 Gen. Emilio Garrastazu Médici - Military dictatorship
• 1974-1979 Gen. Ernesto Geisel- Military Dictatorship
• 1979-1985 Gen. João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo - Military dictatorship

The New Republic

• 1985- Tancredo Neves (Died before assuming)
• 1985-1990 José Sarney (Tancredo's vice)
• 1990-1992 Fernando Collor de Mello (impeached)
• 1992-1995 Itamar Franco (vice of Collor)
• 1995-2003 Fernando Henrique Cardoso (reelected)
• 2003- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

See also

• History of Brazil
• List of Brazilian monarchs
• List of Brazilians

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