Augusto Tasso Fragoso

Augusto Tasso Fragoso was a Brazilian army general and historian who served on the junta that governed Brazil after President Washington Luís was deposed in 1930.

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Brazilian Army: Brazil’s national land-warfare service, established in the nineteenth century and central to several episodes of political change. Fragoso was a senior officer in this institution before joining the 1930 junta.
Mena Barreto: Brazilian army general who served with Tasso Fragoso and Isaías de Noronha on the 1930 governing junta. He shared junta authority with Fragoso during the transition.
Provisional Government of Getúlio Vargas: Brazil’s national government under Vargas from 1930 to 1934, preceding the constitutional government. It began when the junta handed power to Vargas in November 1930.
Brazilian military coups: Military seizures or interventions that alter Brazil’s national political order. The 1930 junta was one episode in Brazil’s recurring military involvement in political succession.
Washington Luís: Brazilian politician who served as president from 1926 until his removal in 1930. His overthrow created the vacancy in power that the junta filled.
Isaías de Noronha: Brazilian admiral who served alongside two army generals on the junta that took power in October 1930. He was the junta’s naval member, distinguishing the body from an army-only leadership.
Brazilian Revolution of 1932: An armed uprising in São Paulo that sought a constitutional government after Vargas took power. It exposed opposition to the post-junta order that Fragoso helped establish.
Brazilian presidential succession: The constitutional and political processes by which Brazil’s presidency passes from one officeholder to another. The junta took power outside ordinary presidential succession after the incumbent’s deposition.
Revolution of 1930: A Brazilian political-military movement that ended the First Republic and brought Getúlio Vargas to power. The revolution’s advance prompted the officers to depose Washington Luís.
José Linhares: Brazilian jurist who became president in 1945 after Getúlio Vargas was deposed. Like Fragoso, he held national authority during a brief transition between regimes.