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Getlio Dornelles Vargas was President of Brazil, first as dictator, from 1930 to 1945, and in a democratically elected term from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Vargas led Brazil foryears, the longest of any President, and second in Brazilian history only to Emperor Pedro II among heads of state. He favored nationalism, industrialization, centralization, social welfare and populism for the latter, Vargas won the nickname The Father of the Poor. He was a proponent of workers rights as well as a staunch anticommunist.

Vargas was born in So Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, onApril 1882, to Manuel do Nascimento Vargas and Cndida Dornelles Vargas. His father had origins in So Paulo, being a descendant of early So Paulo families he was a descendant of Amador Bueno, a noted paulista from the colonial Brazilian era. His mother was descended from a wealthy family of Azorean Portuguese descent.

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