List of Presidents of Brazil

This is a list of the Presidents of Brazil.

The United States of Brazil
Term	Incumbent	Notes
The Old Republic
15 November 1889 to 25 February 1891	General Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca, Head of the Provisional Government	Renounced
25 February 1891to 23 November 1891	Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca, President
23 November 1891 to 15 November 1894	Marshal Floriano Peixoto, acting President
15 November 1894 to 15 November 1898	Dr Prudente José de Morais Barros	First elected civil president
10 November 1896 to 4 March 1897	Manuel Vitorino Pereira, acting President	For Morais
15 November 1898 to 15 November 1902	Dr Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales
15 November 1902 to 15 November 1906	Dr Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
15 November 1906 to 14 June 1909	Dr Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena	Died in office
14 June 1909 to 15 November 1910	Dr Nilo Peçanha
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	Rodrigues Alves	Died before innauguration
15 November 1918 to 28 July 1919	Dr Delfim Moreira, acting President
28 July 1919 to 15 November 1922	Dr Epitácio da Silva Pessoa
15 November 1922 to 15 November 1926	Dr Artur da Silva Bernardes
15 November 1926 to 24 October 1930	Dr Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa
24 October 1930 to 3 November 1930	Dr Augusto Tasso Fragoso
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
Estado Novo (The New State) ? Dictatorship
1937 to 29 October 1945	Getúlio Dorneles Vargas, chairman Government Junta	1st Term; deposed by coup d'état
The Second Republic
29 October 1945 to 31 January 1946	Chief Justice Dr José Linhares, Provisional President
31 January 1946 to 31 January 1951	General Eurico Gaspar Dutra
31 January 1951 to 24 August 1954	Dr Getúlio Vargas	Elected: 2nd Term; committed suicide
24 August 1954 to 31 January 1956	Dr João Café Filho
9 November 1955 to 11 November 1955	Carlos Coimbra da Luz, acting President	For Café
11 November 1955 to 31 January 1956	Nereu de Oliveira Ramos, acting President	For Café; deposed by coup d'état
31 January 1956 to 31 January 1961	Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
31 January 1961 to 25 August 1961	Jânio da Silva Quadros	Renounced
25 August 1961 to 7 September 1961	Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Provisional President	1st Term
7 September 1961 to 1 April 1964	João Goulart	called Jango; deposed by coup d'état
Military Dictatorship
1 April 1964 to 8 April 1964	Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, acting President	2nd Term
8 April 1964 to 15 March 1967	Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco
15 March 1967 to 14 October 1969	Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva
Military junta
14 October 1969 to 30 October 1969
31 August 1969 to 30 October 1969	Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald	ministers of navy, army, and military aeronautics; acting for Costa e Silva
	Aurélio de Lyra Tavares
	Márcio de Souza e Mello
30 October 1969 to 15 March 1974	General Emílio Garrastazu Médici
15 March 1974 to 15 March 1979	General Ernesto Geisel
15 March 1979 to 15 March 1985	João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo
23 September 1981 to 12 November 1981	Aureliano Chaves, acting President	1st Term; for Figueiredo
14 July 1983 to 26 August 1983	Aureliano Chaves, acting President	2nd Term; for Figueiredo
The New Republic
1985 to 1985	Tancredo Neves	Died before innauguration
15 March 1985 to 22 April 1985	José Sarney, acting President
22 April 1985 to 15 March 1990	José Sarney
15 March 1990 to 29 December 1992	Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello	Impeached and suspended
2 October 1992 to 29 December 1992	Itamar Franco, acting President	For suspended Collor
29 December 1992 to 1 January 1995	Itamar Cautiero Franco
1 January 1995 to 1 January 2003	Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Re-elected
1 January 2003 to present	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

See also

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