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Getúlio Vargas
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was a Brazilian military officer, lawyer, and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Due to his long and controversial tenure as Brazil's provisional, constitutional, dictatorial and democratic leader, he is considered by historians as the most influential Brazilian politician of the 20th c…
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politics · President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954) · lawyer · politician · also Getúlio Vargas, Getulio Vargas, Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, Vargas
Born 19 April 1882 · Died 24 August 1954 · Q156844
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Discurso do presidente da República Getúlio Vargas na instalação do Estado Novo no Palácio Guanabara.
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2026· 3 entries
The Conversation: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/EAESP)
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The Conversation: Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
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2025· 4 entries
globo: 'Pijamão' inflável de Getúlio Vargas está em exposição no Museu da República no Catete
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BBC: Dia do Trabalhador ou Dia do Trabalho? Como o Primeiro de Maio foi 'apropriado' por Getúlio Vargas
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Correio do Povo: Hospital Getúlio Vargas, em Sapucaia do Sul, fecha 60 leitos em decorrência da crise financeira
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Folha de Pernambuco: Nova linha TI Getúlio Vargas/Tamarineira entra em operação neste sábado (15); veja itinerários
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2024· 4 entries
Correio do Povo: Grijó: “O suicídio de Getúlio Vargas foi um ato político com grandes consequências”
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globo: De avenida à Esplanada do Castelo, as marcas que Getúlio Vargas deixou no Rio
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Infomoney: No aniversário da morte de Getúlio Vargas, Lula se compara ao ex-presidente
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O Tempo: Tancredo e filha de Getúlio Vargas insistiram para ele resistir à pressão, pouco antes do tiro fatal
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1954· 4 entries
Died 1954-08-24.
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“Desconfio de quem nunca me pediu nada. Geralmente, aqueles que se sentam à mesa sem apetite são os que mais comem.”
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Prematurely ending his second presidency
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“A constituição é como as virgens. Foi feita para ser violada.”
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1952).
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1951· 2 entries
Career landmark: President of Brazil (1951–1954).
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And, through a free and secret ballot, was re-elected president of the Republic
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1950· 1 entry
Reemerged as a prominent political force when he ran for president as the candidate of the Brazilian Labor Party
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1948· 1 entry
Anísio Teixeira, considered to be Brazil's greatest education reformer, reviewed the education reform done in the state of Bahia after twenty years (1928–1948)
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1946· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Senate of Brazil (1946–1951).
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1945· 3 entries
And campaigned for Vargas's policy the same year
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After fifteen years in power, Vargas returned to the presidency democratically after winning the 1950 Brazilian general election
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Release numerous political prisoners, and allow for the reformation of political parties, including the Brazilian Communist Party, which supported Vargas after direction from Moscow
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1944· 1 entry
And further reinforced war pride and antifascism
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1943· 1 entry
Against Vargas; strikes, which were banned, began to re-emerge thanks to war inflation, and even Aranha was in favor of a democratic shift
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1942· 1 entry
Led Brazil into World War II on the side of the Allies after being sandwiched between Nazi Germany and the United States
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1941· 1 entry
His government created the National Sport Council, and, as Skidmore concludes, "Vargas was one of the first politicians to appreciate the political payoff from supporting it
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1939· 2 entries
And the sale of ninety six-inch (152 mm) surplus guns to Brazil in March 1940, followed by a visit from Monteiro to the United States in October, centered foreign policy with the U
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At the beginning of the Second World War, Vargas and Roosevelt both remained neutral, though Vargas continued to foster relations with the Axis powers
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1937).
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And become devoted to her; this was later confirmed by his diaries published fifty years after his death in 2004
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1936· 1 entry
And sentenced to over sixteen years in prison
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1935· 1 entry
Industrialists became interested in establishing oil refineries in the country, such as Standard Oil (1936) and Texaco (1938) amongst others who established "huge" refineries in Brazil, though they would be nationalized
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1930· 4 entries
But Prestes refused, opting instead to lead the Brazilian Communist Party
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Career landmark: President of Brazil (1930–1945).
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Campaign: 1930 presidential nomination and election.
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After losing the presidential election, Vargas rose to power under a provisional presidency following an armed revolution, remaining until 1934 when he was elected president under a new constitution
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1929· 1 entry
But this plummeted to a mere eight cents in 1931
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1928· 2 entries
Medeiros was to complete his lengthy tenure and depart from the presidency of Rio Grande do Sul
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Gained valuable recognition and experience on a national level
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1926· 1 entry
Chose Vargas to become his Minister of Finance
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1925· 1 entry
When as a member of a commission studying constitutional reform he advocated greater government authority
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1924· 1 entry
Vargas became the official leader of the Rio Grande do Sul congressional delegation, the same year he was forced to take his daughter Alzira out of school in November after a warship opened fire on Rio de Janeiro as part
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1923· 1 entry
Career landmark: federal deputy of Rio Grande do Sul (1923–1926).
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1922· 1 entry
And deputies could only command troops with the permission of the National Congress
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1919· 2 entries
In 1919, 76 residents of São Borja complained to the state government about the Vargases' "coercive" actions, and in 1933, during Vargas's first presidency, two of his nephews were killed in a border clash.
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76 residents of São Borja complained to the state government about the Vargases' "coercive" actions, and in 1933, during Vargas's first presidency, two of his nephews were killed in a border clash
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1917· 1 entry
And several failed tenente revolts of discontent junior military officers throughout the 1920s
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1898· 1 entry
Despite his father's protests, enlisting as a private in the 6th Infantry Battalion for one year
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1882· 2 entries
Born 1882-04-19.
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Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was born in São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, on 19 April 1882, the third of five sons born to Manuel do Nascimento Vargas and Cândida Dornelles Vargas.
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