Aurélio de Lira Tavares | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of the Brazilian Military Junta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 31 August 1969 – 30 October 1969 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Artur da Costa e Silva (as President) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Emílio Garrastazu Médici (as President) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Aurélio de Lira Tavares 7 November 1905 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 November 1998 (aged 93) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Branch/service |  Brazil Brazilian Army | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank |  General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aurélio de Lira Tavares (7 November 1905 – 18 November 1998) was a general in the Brazilian Army. He was one of the military in the joint military board that ruled Brazil between the illness of Artur da Costa e Silva in August 1969 and the investiture ceremony of Emílio Garrastazu Médici in October of that same year.
During the government of the junta, the American ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the communist guerilla group Revolutionary Movement 8th October — radical opposition to the military dictatorship.
Tavares was born in João Pessoa.
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