Brazil/Catalogs/Presidents

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This is a list of presidents of Brazil.

Notes:

• The first two presidents were military engaged on the fall of monarchy.
• The period from 1893 to 1930 is called Velha República, old republic, a time when the elections were highly suspicious. The candidates were chosen mostly by the elites of São Paulo and Minas Gerais States, in turns. All presidents of this period, but Epitácio Pessoa, were Lawyers graduated at Universidade de São Paulo. The other one was also a Lawyer.
• The dictatorship period from 1930 to 1945 is called Estado Novo. The dictator, by demagogic means, had plenty of support from the people.
• Between 1945 and 1961 Brazil experienced its first democratic period.
• When Janio Quadros renounced, fearing the left believes of the vice-president, the elites changed the system was to parliamentary through a sort of covered coup. This lasted from 1961 to 1964.
• The period from 1964 to 1985 is called, The Military Revolution of 90 Period. President Sarney was indirectly elected as the Vice President of Tancredo Neves according to the rules set by the revolutionary Presidents.
• After 1985 and on Brazil is experiencing a highly democratic period, despite some claims of corruption.

No.	Name	Term of office	Elected by vote	Reason for early end of term
1	Deodoro da Fonseca	1889 — 1891		Resigned
2	Floriano Peixoto	1891 — 1894
3	Prudente de Morais	1894 — 1898	*
4	Campos Sales	1898 — 1902	*
5	Rodrigues Alves	1902 — 1906	*
6	Afonso Pena	1906 — 1909	*	Died
7	Nilo Peçanha	1909 — 1910	*
8	Hermes da Fonseca	1910 - 1914	*
9	Venceslau Brás	1914 — 1918	*
10	Rodrigues Alves	—	*	Died before inauguration of 2nd term
11	Delfim Moreira	1918 — 1919	*	President till new elections took place
12	Epitácio Pessoa	1919 — 1922	*
13	Artur Bernardes	1922 — 1926	*
14	Washington Luís	1926 — 1930	*	Deposed one month before end term
15	Júlio Prestes	—	*	President already elected, never inaugurated
16	Getúlio Vargas	1930 — 1945		Dictator ended deposed
17	José Linhares	1945 — 1946		Judge of Supreme court in power waiting for elections
18	Gaspar Dutra	1946 — 1951	*
19	Getúlio Vargas	1951 — 1954	*	Suicided
20	Café Filho	1954 — 1955	*	Health
21	Carlos Luz	1955 — 1955		President of House of Representatives, Deposed
22	Nereu Ramos	1955 — 1956
23	Juscelino Kubitschek	1956 — 1961	*
24	Jânio Quadros	1961 — 1961	*	Resigned
25	Ranieri Mazzilli	1961 — 1961		President of House of Representatives
26	João Goulart	1961 — 1964	*	System parliamentary, Deposed
27	Ranieri Mazzilli	1964 — 1964		President of House of Representatives - Revolution
28	Castelo Branco	1964 — 1967		Died
29	Costa e Silva	1967 — 1969		Health
30	Emilio Medici	1969 — 1974
31	Ernesto Geisel	1974 — 1979
32	João Figueiredo	1979 — 1985
33	Tancredo Neves	—		Died before inauguration
34	José Sarney	1985 — 1990
35	Fernando Collor de Mello	1990 — 1992	*	Impeachment
36	Itamar Franco	1992 — 1995	*
37	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	1995 — 2003	*
38	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	2003 — 2011	*