Aureliano Chaves

Aureliano Chaves
Vice President of Brazil
In office
15 March 1979 – 14 March 1985
PresidentJoão Figueiredo
Preceded byAdalberto Pereira dos Santos
Succeeded byJosé Sarney
Minister of Mines and Energy
In office
15 March 1985 – 22 December 1988
PresidentJosé Sarney
Preceded byCésar Cals
Succeeded byIris Rezende
Governor of Minas Gerais
In office
15 March 1975 – 5 July 1978
Vice GovernorLevindo Ozanam Coelho
Preceded byRondon Pacheco
Succeeded byLevindo Ozanam Coelho
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 1967 – 1 February 1975
ConstituencyMinas Gerais
State Deputy of Minas Gerais
In office
1 February 1959 – 1 February 1967
ConstituencyAt-large
Personal details
Born(1929-01-13)13 January 1929
Três Pontas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died30 April 2003(2003-04-30) (aged 74)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Political party
  • UDN (Before 1966)
  • ARENA (1966–1979)
  • PDS (1979–1985)
  • PFL (1985–2003)
SpouseVivi Chaves

Aureliano Chaves (13 January 1929 – April 30, 2003) was a Brazilian politician.

Born in Três Pontas, state of Minas Gerais, he was a Representative of this state in the Chamber of Deputies in 1967 from the ARENA party. He was selected as the governor of Minas Gerais state from 1975 to 1978 and was elected vice-president in 1979 under João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo. He acted as president during Figueiredo's health crisis in 1981 and 1983.[1]

After the democratization of Brazil, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Brazil. After the elections of 1989 he retired from politics.

  1. ^ Hoge, Warren; Times, Special To the New York (20 September 1981). "BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT SUFFERS HEART ATTACK". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 August 2022.