José de Magalhães Pinto was a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian politician

Politician

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 and banker.

Magalhães Pinto was born in Santo Antônio do Monte

Santo Antônio do Monte

Santo Antônio do Monte is a town in the western central part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its coordinates are 20.0856/20° 5' 13" S and the longitude is 41.2495/41° 17' 38" W. It has 27,534 inhabitants . The city is located 194 km west of state capital Belo Horizonte...

, the state of Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

. He was the Governor of this state from 1961 to 1966. While governor, Magalhães Pinto became the leading civilian in the opposition

Opposition (politics)

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 movement. In 1964, Magalhães Pinto and Field Marshal

Field Marshal

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 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was a Brazilian military leader and politician.He was President of Brazil, as a military dictator, after the 1964 coup d'etat...

, the chief of staff of the army, "emerged as the chief coordinators of the conspiracy" to depose President

President of Brazil

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 João Goulart

João Goulart

João Belchior Marques Goulart was a Brazilian politician and the 24th President of Brazil until a military coup d'état deposed him on April 1, 1964. He is considered to have been the last left-wing President of the country until Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in 2003.-Name:João Goulart is...

 by the Brazilian military. This conspiracy proved successful, and ushered in "two decades of strict military rule."

After leaving the governorship, he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the military government. He later left the government to run for and serve in the Senate

Senate of Brazil

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.

See also

• List of Governors of Minas Gerais
• 1964 Brazilian coup d'état