Vice-President of Brazil

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The Vice-President of Brazil is the second-highest ranking government official in the executive branch of the Government of Brazil after the President. The vice president's primary job is to replace the president on the event of his or her death or resignation, and to assume the Presidency temporarily while the president is abroad, or otherwise temporarily unable to fulfill his or her duties. The vice president is elected jointly with the president as his or her running mate.

The vice president resides at the Palácio do Jaburu in Brasília.

[edit] List of Vice Presidents

#	Name	Birth Place	Start of Term	End of Term	Party	President(s) Served
1	Marechal Floriano Vieira Peixoto	Alagoas	February 26, 1891	November 23, 1891¹		Deodoro da Fonseca
2	Manuel Vitorino Pereira	Bahia	November 15, 1894	November 15, 1898		Prudente de Morais
3	Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva	Pernambuco	November 15, 1898	November 15, 1902		Campos Salles
4	Francisco Silviano de Almeida Brandão²	Minas Gerais			PRM	Rodrigues Alves
5	Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena³	Minas Gerais	June 17, 1903	November 15, 1906	PRM	Rodrigues Alves
6	Nilo Procopio Peçanha	Rio de Janeiro	November 15, 1906	June 14, 1909⁴		Afonso Pena
7	Venceslau Braz Pereira Gomes	Minas Gerais	November 15, 1910	November 15, 1914	PRM	Hermes da Fonseca
8	Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo	Maranhão	November 15, 1914	November 15, 1918		Venceslau Braz
9	Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro⁵	Minas Gerais	November 15, 1918	July 1, 1920	PRM	Rodrigues Alves⁶/Epitacio Pessoa
10	Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva⁷	Minas Gerais	November 10, 1920	November 15, 1922	PRM	Epitacio Pessoa
11	Epitacio de Albuquerque Coimbra	Pernambuco	November 15, 1922	November 15, 1926		Artur Bernardes
12	Fernando de Melo Viana	Minas Gerais	November 15, 1926	October 24, 1930⁸	PRM	Washington Luiz
13	Vital Henrique Batista Soares⁹	Bahia				Julio Prestes
The post of Vice-Presidente was extinct in 1934 Constitution and restored in 1946 Constitution
14	Nereu de Oliveira Ramos	Santa Catarina	January 31, 1946	January 31, 1951	PSD	Dutra
15	João Café Filho	Rio Grande do Norte	January 31, 1951	August 24, 1954⁴	PSP	Getulio Vargas
16	João Belchior Marques Goulart	Rio Grande do Sul	January 31, 1956	September 7, 1961¹	PTB	Juscelino Kubitschek/Janio Quadros
17	José Maria Alckmin	Minas Gerais	April 15, 1964	March 15, 1967	PSD	Castello Branco
18	Pedro Aleixo	Minas Gerais	March 15, 1967	October 6, 1969¹⁰	ARENA	Costa e Silva
19	Alm. Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald	Guanabara	October 30, 1969	March 15, 1974	ARENA	Garrastazú Medici
20	Gen. Adalberto Pereira dos Santos	Rio Grande do Sul	March 15, 1974	March 15, 1979	ARENA	Ernesto Geisel
21	Antonio Aureliano Chaves de Mendonça	Minas Gerais	March 15, 1979	March 15, 1985	ARENA	João Figueiredo
22	José Sarney (José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa)	Maranhão	March 15, 1985	April 21, 1985¹¹	PMDB	Tancredo Neves⁶
23	Itamar Augusto Cantiero Franco	born at sea between Bahia and Rio de Janeiro	March 15, 1990	December 29, 1992¹	PMDB	Fernando Collor de Mello
24	Marco Maciel	Pernambuco	January 1, 1995	January 1, 2003	PFL	Fernando H. Cardoso
25	José Alencar Gomes da Silva	Minas Gerais	January 1, 2003		PL, PRB	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva