While appearing to accept defeat, vargas in october of that year led the revolution, organized by his friends, that overthrew the oligarchical republic Getúlio vargas, (born april 19, 1882, são borja, braz.—died aug For the next 15 years vargas assumed largely dictatorial powers, ruling most of that time without a congress.
Linda Vargas Miss December 1957 by FarCanal3 on DeviantArt
Vargas was the dominant political personality of brazil for nearly a quarter century, and his legacy persisted after his death by suicide
He is widely regarded as the prime mover of the nationalistic social and economic changes that have prompted the modernization of brazil since the 1930s.
From a wealthy landholding family in the south, vargas became interim president in 1930 and then ruled the country until 1945. Getúlio vargas, the losing candidate in the 1930 presidential election, led a revolt that placed him in power. A populist governor of brazil's southernmost rio grande do sul state, vargas was a cattle rancher with a doctorate in law and was the 1930 presidential candidate of the liberal alliance.
