Vice President of Brazil

Vice President of Brazil
Vice Presidential Standard
Incumbent Michel Temer since January 1, 2011
Residence	Palácio do Jaburu
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Marshal Floriano Peixoto
Formation	February 26, 1891
Website	Vice Presidency

The Vice President of Brazil (Portuguese: Vice-presidente do Brasil) is the second-highest ranking government official in the executive branch of the Government of Brazil, preceded only by the president. The Vice President's primary role is to replace the president on the event of his or her death, resignation, or impeachment, and to temporarily take over the Presidency while the President is abroad, or otherwise temporarily unable to carry out his or her duties. The Vice President is elected jointly with the president as his or her running mate.

The office has existed since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, although it was only officially instated as of the 1891 Constitution. It has been in place throughout all of Brazil's republican history, save for the fifteen years of the Vargas Era, when it was abolished.

Since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, seven Vice Presidents have been called upon to replace former Presidents, including the first Vice President, Floriano Peixoto, as well as Nilo Peçanha, Delfim Moreira, Café Filho, João Goulart, José Sarney, and, most recently, Itamar Franco. Four of these instances were due to death of the incumbent, two due to resignation, and one due to impeachment.

Requirements

The requirements to run for the office of Vice President are exactly those of the Presidency itself. In addition to the ordinary requirements to run for political office in Brazil, under the terms of article 14 of the Constitution, a candidate for the Vice Presidency must be a natural born citizen of Brazil (which under certain circumstances may include the offspring of one or two Brazilian parents living abroad) and be at least 35 years of age.

Election and Tenure

The President and Vice President are elected in a single ticket for a four-year term, and are inaugurated on 1 January of the year following that of the election. Both may be reelected for a subsequent term. A Vice President who has succeeded a President may be reelected as President for an additional term.

Workplace and official residence

The Vice President works in an annex building of the Palácio do Planalto. The official residence of the Vice President is the Palácio do Jaburu, inaugurated in 1977.

List of Vice Presidents

#	Name	Birthplace	Start of term	End of term	Party	President(s) served
1	Marechal Floriano Vieira Peixoto	Alagoas	February 26, 1891	November 23, 1891		Deodoro da Fonseca
Vacant			November 23, 1891	November 15, 1894	Vacant	Floriano Peixoto
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 Sales
▬	Francisco Silviano de Almeida Brandão	Minas Gerais			PRM	Rodrigues Alves
4	Afonso Pena	Minas Gerais	June 17, 1903	November 15, 1906	PRM	Rodrigues Alves
5	Nilo Procopio Peçanha	Rio de Janeiro	November 15, 1906	June 14, 1909		Afonso Pena
Vacant			June 14, 1909	November 15, 1910	Vacant	Nilo Peçanha
6	Venceslau Brás	Minas Gerais	November 15, 1910	November 15, 1914	PRM	Hermes da Fonseca
7	Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo	Maranhão	November 15, 1914	November 15, 1918		Venceslau Brás
8	Delfim Moreira	Minas Gerais	November 15, 1918	January 16, 1919	PRM	Rodrigues Alves
Vacant			November 15, 1918	July 28, 1919	Vacant	Delfim Moreira
8	Delfim Moreira	Minas Gerais	July 28, 1919	July 1, 1920	PRM	Epitácio Pessoa
9	Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva	Minas Gerais	November 10, 1920	November 15, 1922	PRM	Epitacio Pessoa
10	Estácio Coimbra	Pernambuco	November 15, 1922	November 15, 1926		Artur Bernardes
11	Fernando de Melo Viana	Minas Gerais	November 15, 1926	October 24, 1930	PRM	Washington Luís
▬	Vital Henrique Batista Soares	Bahia				Julio Prestes
The post of Vice-President was abolished in the 1934 Constitution and restored in the 1946 Constitution
12	Nereu de Oliveira Ramos	Santa Catarina	January 31, 1946	January 31, 1951	PSD	Gaspar Dutra
13	João Café Filho	Rio Grande do Norte	January 31, 1951	August 24, 1954	PSP	Getúlio Vargas
14	João Belchior Marques Goulart	Rio Grande do Sul	January 31, 1956	September 7, 1961	PTB	Juscelino Kubitschek/Jânio Quadros
Vacant			September 7, 1961	April 1, 1964	Vacant	João Belchior Marques Goulart
15	José Maria Alkmin	Minas Gerais	April 15, 1964	March 15, 1967	PSD	Castelo Branco
16	Pedro Aleixo	Minas Gerais	March 15, 1967	October 6, 1969	ARENA	Costa e Silva
17	Alm. Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald	Guanabara	October 30, 1969	March 15, 1974	ARENA	Garrastazú Medici
18	Gen. Adalberto Pereira dos Santos	Rio Grande do Sul	March 15, 1974	March 15, 1979	ARENA	Ernesto Geisel
19	Antonio Aureliano Chaves de Mendonça	Minas Gerais	March 15, 1979	March 15, 1985	ARENA	João Figueiredo
20	José Sarney (José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa)	Maranhão	March 15, 1985	April 21, 1985	PMDB	Tancredo Neves
Vacant			April 21, 1985	March 14, 1990	Vacant	José Sarney
21	Itamar Augusto Cantiero Franco	born at sea between Bahia and Rio de Janeiro	March 15, 1990	December 29, 1992	PMDB	Fernando Collor de Mello
Vacant			December 29, 1992	January 1, 1995	Vacant	Itamar Franco
22	Marco Maciel	Pernambuco	January 1, 1995	January 1, 2003	PFL	Fernando H. Cardoso
23	José Alencar Gomes da Silva	Minas Gerais	January 1, 2003	January 1, 2011	PL, PRB	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
24	Michel Temer	São Paulo	January 1, 2011	Incumbent	PMDB	Dilma Rousseff

See also

• List of current vice presidents

External links

• Vice-Presidency of Brazil Official Website
• Official vice presidential portrait