Pedro Aleixo

Former vice president of Brazil
Pedro Aleixo
Pedro Aleixo
President-designate of Brazil[a]
In role
31 August 1969 – 14 October 1969
Vice PresidentNone
Preceded byArtur da Costa e Silva
Succeeded byEmílio Garrastazu Médici
Vice President of Brazil
In office
15 March 1967 – 14 October 1969
PresidentArtur da Costa e Silva
Preceded byJosé Maria Alkmin
Succeeded byAugusto Rademaker
Minister of Education
In office
10 January 1966 – 30 June 1966
PresidentHumberto Castelo Branco
Preceded bySuplicy de Lacerda
Succeeded byRaymundo de Aragão
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 May 1937 – 10 November 1937
Preceded byAntônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada
Succeeded byHonório Monteiro
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 1959 – 11 July 1966
ConstituencyMinas Gerais
In office
3 May 1935 – 10 November 1937
ConstituencyMinas Gerais
State Deputy of Minas Gerais
In office
1947–1950
ConstituencyAt-large
Personal details
Born(1901-08-01)1 August 1901
Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died3 March 1975(1975-03-03) (aged 73)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Political partyARENA (1965–1973)
Other political
affiliations		PRM (1932–1937)
UDN (1945–1965)
ProfessionLawyer, 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

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

Notes

  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.
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 Vice President of Brazil
1967–1969 		Succeeded by
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