Getúlio Vargas
President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)
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He lost an election, so he seized the country by force — then held it for fifteen years through revolution, dictatorship, and war. Vargas bent Brazil to his will across two presidencies and died by his own hand in office.
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Born in 1882 to a powerful family in Rio Grande do Sul, Vargas moved from the army to law school to district attorney, then climbed through state politics and led troops in a 1923 civil war. He served as Minister of Finance before governing his home state, where he pushed an active policy agenda. After losing the 1930 presidential election, he launched an armed revolution and took power as provisional president, later winning election under a new constitution in 1934. Three years later he invoked the threat of communist insurrection to seize dictatorial control, launching the eight-year Estado…
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