Pedro Aleixo

Pedro Aleixo
Pedro Aleixo
President-designate of Brazil
	In role; 31 August 1969 – 14 October 1969
Vice President	None
Preceded by	Artur da Costa e Silva
Succeeded by	Emílio Garrastazu Médici
Vice President of Brazil
	In office; 15 March 1967 – 14 October 1969
President	Artur da Costa e Silva
Preceded by	José Maria Alkmin
Succeeded by	Augusto Rademaker
Minister of Education
	In office; 10 January 1966 – 30 June 1966
President	Humberto Castelo Branco
Preceded by	Suplicy de Lacerda
Succeeded by	Raymundo de Aragão
President of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 5 May 1937 – 10 November 1937
Preceded by	Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada
Succeeded by	Honório Monteiro
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 1 February 1959 – 11 July 1966
Constituency	Minas Gerais
	In office; 3 May 1935 – 10 November 1937
Constituency	Minas Gerais
State Deputy of Minas Gerais
	In office; 1947–1950
Constituency	At-large
Personal details
Born	1 August 1901; Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died	3 March 1975 (aged 73); Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Political party	ARENA (1965–1973)
Other political; affiliations	PRM (1932–1937); UDN (1945–1965)
Profession	Lawyer, politician, professor

Pedro Aleixo (1 August 1901 – 3 March 1975) was a Brazilian politician who served as President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1937^[1] and as the 16th vice president of Brazil from 15 March 1967 to 14 October 1969.

As president of the Chamber of Deputies he witnessed the coup d'état that installed the dictatorship of the Estado Novo in Brazil.

Aleixo was the last vice president to hold the office of President of the Senate. As vice president, he was the designate to succeed Artur da Costa e Silva after he became incapacitated due to disease, but Aleixo was removed from the vice presidency on 6 October 1969 by the Brazilian military junta of 1969, which took the acting presidency instead.

In September 2011, pursuant to Law Nº 12.486, Aleixo was included in the gallery of those who were anointed by the Brazilian Nation to the Supreme Magistracy. This means that he should be considered an ex-president, for all legal purposes.

References

^ "Presidentes da Câmara dos Deputados". Portal da Câmara dos Deputados.

Notes

^ A military junta composed of the Ministers in charge of the three branches of the Armed Forces assumed the powers of the presidency on 31 August 1969 after President Costa e Sliva suffered a cerebral thrombosis that left him completely incapacitated. The military junta seized power so as to prevent Vice President Pedro Aleixo, a civilian, from becoming acting president. The possibility of a civilian, even a conservative one, assuming the powers of the presidency was seen as detrimental to the continuity of the military regime. In the initial stage of the President's disease, the junta hoped that he would recover. Subsequently, realizing that the President's condition was irreversible, and that the prolonged continuity of a triumvirate was detrimental to the regime and to its image, the military junta issued an institutional act on 14 October 1969 removing the incapacitated president and the vice president from office and summoning Congress to elect a new president and vice president. The military elite that controlled the regime then selected General Emílio Garrastazu Médici to be ARENA's candidate, and his name was rubber-stamped by Congress. The junta remained in place until the new president was sworn in. In 2011, Brazil enacted a Federal Law recognizing the illegality of the acts that prevented Vice President Pedro Aleixo from becoming acting president and that removed him from office; the statute also directs that Pedro Aleixo be deemed a former president of the Republic. Costa e Silva died less than three months after his removal, and were it not for the military acts now declared illegal that removed him from the vice presidency, Pedro Aleixo would have succeeded to the presidency.

Political offices
Preceded by Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada	President of the Chamber of Deputies 1937	Succeeded by Honório Monteiro
Preceded by Suplicy de Lacerda	Minister of Education 1966	Succeeded by Raymundo de Aragão
Preceded by José Maria Alkmin	Vice President of Brazil 1967–1969	Succeeded by Augusto Rademaker

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[camara-2] "Presidentes da Câmara dos Deputados". Portal da Câmara dos Deputados.

[1] A military junta composed of the Ministers in charge of the three branches of the Armed Forces assumed the powers of the presidency on 31 August 1969 after President Costa e Sliva suffered a cerebral thrombosis that left him completely incapacitated. The military junta seized power so as to prevent Vice President Pedro Aleixo, a civilian, from becoming acting president. The possibility of a civilian, even a conservative one, assuming the powers of the presidency was seen as detrimental to the continuity of the military regime. In the initial stage of the President's disease, the junta hoped that he would recover. Subsequently, realizing that the President's condition was irreversible, and that the prolonged continuity of a triumvirate was detrimental to the regime and to its image, the military junta issued an institutional act on 14 October 1969 removing the incapacitated president and the vice president from office and summoning Congress to elect a new president and vice president. The military elite that controlled the regime then selected General Emílio Garrastazu Médici to be ARENA's candidate, and his name was rubber-stamped by Congress. The junta remained in place until the new president was sworn in. In 2011, Brazil enacted a Federal Law recognizing the illegality of the acts that prevented Vice President Pedro Aleixo from becoming acting president and that removed him from office; the statute also directs that Pedro Aleixo be deemed a former president of the Republic. Costa e Silva died less than three months after his removal, and were it not for the military acts now declared illegal that removed him from the vice presidency, Pedro Aleixo would have succeeded to the presidency.

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Estado Novo (1937–46)	Getúlio Vargas (1937–1945) × José Linhares (1945–1946)
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Military dictatorship (1964–85)	Ranieri Mazzilli (1964) Castelo Branco (1964–1967) Costa e Silva (1967–1969) † Pedro Aleixo (posthumous) Military Junta (1969) Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1969–1974) Ernesto Geisel (1974–1979) João Figueiredo (1979–1985)
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Populist Republic (1946–64)	Nereu Ramos Café Filho João Goulart
Military dictatorship (1964–85)	José Maria Alkmin Pedro Aleixo Augusto Rademaker Adalberto Pereira dos Santos Aureliano Chaves
New Republic (1985–present)	José Sarney Itamar Franco Marco Maciel José Alencar Michel Temer Hamilton Mourão Geraldo Alckmin
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