List of Presidents of Brazil (Great Empires)

The president of Brazil, is a government chief while the emperor is chief of state. The figure of the president is the same of the prime-minister in parliamentarism but the president is elected by popular vote and not by the majority of parliament. The emperor has full power to dismiss the head of the government at any time.

List of presidents of Brazil (since 1879)


01. 1879-1884: Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, Viscount of Ouro Preto (Conservative) 

02. 1884-1891: Gaspar da Silveira Martins (Independent) 

03. 1891-1893: Floriano Peixoto, Marquis of Desterro (Military) 

04. 1893-1898: Prudente de Morais (Liberal) 

05. 1898-1902: Campos Sales, Duke of Campinas (Liberal) 

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