Márcio Melo

Márcio Melo

President of Brazil Member of the Military Junta
In office 31 August 1969 – 30 October 1969
Co-Members	Augusto Rademaker Aurélio de Lira Tavares
Preceded by	Artur da Costa e Silva (President of Brazil)
Succeeded by	Emílio Garrastazu Médici (President of Brazil)
Personal details
Born	Márcio de Sousa Melo 26 May 1906 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Died	31 January 1991 (aged 84) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Márcio de Sousa e Melo (May 26, 1906, Florianópolis – January 31, 1991) was a general with the Brazilian air force. Melo was one of the military in the joint military board that ruled Brazil between the illness of Artur da Costa e Silva in August 1969 and the investiture ceremony of Emílio Garrastazu Médici in October of that same year.

During the government of the junta, the American Ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the communist guerilla group Revolutionary Movement 8th October — radical opposition to the military dictatorship.

Political offices
Preceded by Artur da Costa e Silva	Member of the Military Junta alongside Augusto Rademaker and Aurélio de Lira Tavares 1969	Succeeded by Emílio Garrastazu Médici

Presidents of Brazil

Old Republic (1889–1930)	Deodoro da Fonseca Floriano Peixoto Prudente de Morais Campos Sales Rodrigues Alves Afonso Pena Nilo Peçanha Hermes da Fonseca Venceslau Brás Delfim Moreira Epitácio Pessoa Artur Bernardes Washington Luís Júlio Prestes

Vargas Era (1930–1945)	Military Junta (Augusto Fragoso • Isaías de Noronha • Mena Barreto) Getúlio Vargas José Linhares

Republic of 46 (1946–1964)	Eurico Gaspar Dutra Getúlio Vargas Café Filho Carlos Luz Nereu Ramos Juscelino Kubitschek Jânio Quadros Ranieri Mazzilli João Goulart

Military Regime (1964–1985)	Ranieri Mazzilli Humberto Castello Branco Artur da Costa e Silva Military Junta (Augusto Rademaker • Aurélio de Lira Tavares • Márcio Melo) Emílio Garrastazu Médici Ernesto Geisel João Figueiredo

New Republic (1985–)	Tancredo Neves José Sarney Fernando Collor de Mello Itamar Franco Fernando Henrique Cardoso Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Dilma Rousseff Michel Temer

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