Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli

Infobox_President | name= Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli


nationality=Brazilian
term_start=August 25, 1961
term_end=September 7, 1961
April 2, 1964- April 15, 1964
predecessor=Jânio Quadros (1961)
João Goulart (1964)
successor=João Goulart (1961)
Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco (1964)
birth_date=birth date|1910|4|27|mf=y
birth_place=Caconde, São Paulo
death_date=death date and age|1975|4|21|1910|4|27|mf=y
death_place=São Paulo, São Paulo
spouse=
party=Social Democratic Party - PSD
order=26th President of Brazil
28th President of Brazil
vicepresident=

Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli,LS (April 27, 1910–April 21, 1975) was a Brazilian politician. The son of Italian immigrants Pasquale Mazzilli and Angela Luizzi, he entered the Faculty of Law of São Paulo in 1930 but did not complete his studies, working briefly as a tax collector in Taubaté. In 1932 he began working as a journalist, specialising in financial matters. In 1940 he decided to continue his education, graduating in 1940 from the Faculty of Law of Niterói. Mazzilli was the president of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil between 1958 and 1965. He assumed the Presidency for two weeks in August 1961 after the resignation of Jânio Quadros, because the vice-president João Goulart was on an official visit in China. Goulart was also prevented by the military from assuming the presidency, being later allowed to take over under parliamentary regime. On April 1, 1964, after the deposition of Goulart, Mazzilli assumed the presidency again until Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco took the power through indirect elections after the 1964 coup d'etat.

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