List of Presidents of Brazil

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This is a list of the Presidents of Brazil.

Term	Party	Incumbent	Notes
The Old Republic (1889-1930)
15 November 1889 to 25 February 1891		Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca	Head of the provisional government, after leading a coup d'etat against the emperor. Renounced
25 February 1891to 23 November 1891		Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca	Elected by an Electoral College.
23 November 1891 to 15 November 1894		Marshal Floriano Peixoto	Acting president for Deodoro
15 November 1894 to 15 November 1898		Prudente José de Morais Barros	First elected president, first civilian president.
10 November 1896 to 4 March 1897		Manuel Vitorino Pereira	Acting president for Prudente de Morais.
15 November 1898 to 15 November 1902		Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles
15 November 1902 to 15 November 1906		Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
15 November 1906 to 14 June 1909		Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena	Died in office
14 June 1909 to 15 November 1910		Dr Nilo Peçanha	Acting president for Afonso Pena.
15 November 1910 to 15 November 1914		Marshal Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca
15 November 1914 to 15 November 1918		Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes
1918 to 1918		Francisco e Paula Rodrigues Alves	Died before innauguration.
15 November 1918 to 28 July 1919		Dr Delfim Moreira	Acting President for Rodrigues Alves until new election.
28 July 1919 to 15 November 1922		Dr Epitácio da Silva Pessoa
15 November 1922 to 15 November 1926		Artur da Silva Bernardes
15 November 1926 to 24 October 1930		Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa
Revolution of 1930
24 October 1930 to 3 November 1930		Military Junta General Augusto Tasso Fragoso General João de Deus Menna Barreto Admiral José Isaias de Noronha	After Revolution of 1930
3 November 1930 to 20 July 1934		Getúlio Dorneles Vargas	Head of the Provisional Government.
20 July 1934 to 1937		Getúlio Dorneles Vargas	Constitutional Government (elected by an Electoral College).
Estado Novo (The New State) – Dictatorship
1937 to 29 October 1945		Getúlio Dorneles Vargas	Dictator, deposed by coup d'état.
The Second Republic
29 October 1945 to 31 January 1946		José Linhares	Provisional president.
31 January 1946 to 31 January 1951	PSD	General Eurico Gaspar Dutra	Democratically elected.
31 January 1951 to 24 August 1954	PTB	Getúlio Dornelles Vargas	Democratically elected. Committed suicide in order to avoid a coup d'état.
24 August 1954 to 8 November 1955		Dr João Café Filho	Acting president for Vargas. Renounced.
9 November 1955 to 11 November 1955		Carlos Coimbra da Luz	Acting president for Vargas. Renounced.
11 November 1955 to 31 January 1956		Nereu de Oliveira Ramos	Acting president for Vargas.
31 January 1956 to 31 January 1961	PSD	Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
31 January 1961 to 25 August 1961	UDN/PTN	Jânio da Silva Quadros	Renounced, citing terrible forces against him.
25 August 1961 to 7 September 1961		Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli	Provisional President.
7 September 1961 to 1 April 1964	PTB	João Belchior Marques Goulart	Popularly known as Jango. Deposed by a coup d'état.
Military Dictatorship
1 April 1964 to 8 April 1964		Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli	Acting President.
8 April 1964 to 15 March 1967	ARENA	Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
15 March 1967 to 31 August 1969	ARENA	Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva	Elected by an Electoral College. Deposed due to health problems and died soon after.
31 August 1969 to 30 October 1969		Military Junta Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald Aurélio de Lyra Tavares Márcio de Souza e Mello	Ministers of navy, army, and air force. Acting for Costa e Silva.
30 October 1969 to 15 March 1974	ARENA	General Emílio Garrastazu Médici	Elected by an Electoral College.
15 March 1974 to 15 March 1979	ARENA	General Ernesto Geisel	Elected by an Electoral College.
15 March 1979 to 15 March 1985	ARENA/PDS	João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo	Elected by an Electoral College.
23 September 1981 to 12 November 1981		Aureliano Chaves	Acting president for Figueiredo.
14 July 1983 to 26 August 1983		Aureliano Chaves	Acting president for Figueiredo.
The New Republic
1985	PMDB	Tancredo Neves	Civilian president elected by an Electoral College. Died before innauguration.
15 March 1985 to 15 March 1990	PMDB	José Sarney	Acting president for Tancredo.
15 March 1990 to 29 December 1992		Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello	Suspended from office. Renounced and subsequently impeached.
2 October 1992 to 1 January 1995	PMDB	Itamar Franco	Acting President for Collor.
1 January 1995 to 31 December 2002	PSDB	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Carried out first and second terms.
1 January 2003 to present	PT	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Popularly known as Lula

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