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{{Short description|Brazilian army officer (1905–1998)}}
{{Portuguese name|Lira|Tavares}}
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{{Infobox Officeholder
|name         = Aurélio de Lira Tavares
|image        = Aurélio_de_Lira_Tavares,_General,_Ministro_do_Exército..tif
|office       = [[Brazilian military junta of 1969|Member of the Brazilian Military Junta]]
|term_start   = 31 August 1969
|term_end     = 30 October 1969
|alongside    = [[Augusto Rademaker]], [[Márcio Melo]]
|predecessor  = [[Artur da Costa e Silva]]<br>(as President)
|successor    = [[Emílio Garrastazu Médici]]<br>(as President)
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|office1      = [[Brazil–France relations|Ambassador of Brazil to France]]
|nominator1   = [[Emílio Garrastazu Médici]]
|term_start1  = 22 July 1970
|term_end1    = 17 December 1974
|predecessor1 = Olavo Billac Pinto
|successor1   = [[Antônio Delfim Netto]]
|office2      = [[Ministry of War (Brazil)|Minister of the Army]]
|president2   = [[Artur da Costa e Silva]]<br>[[Brazilian Military Junta of 1969|Military Junta]] (interim)
|term_start2  = 15 March 1967
|term_end2    = 30 October 1969
|predecessor2 = Ademar de Queirós
|successor2   = Orlando Geisel
|office3      = [[Institutional Security Cabinet|Chief Minister of the Military Cabinet]]
|president3   = [[João Goulart]]
|term_start3  = 12 June 1963
|term_end3    = 18 October 1963
|predecessor3 = Albino Silva
|successor3   = Argemiro de Assis Brasil
|primeminister4= [[Tancredo Neves]]
|term_start4  = 19 September 1961
|term_end4    = 12 July 1962
|predecessor4 = [[Amaury Kruel]]
|successor4   = Amaury Kruel
{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
|birth_name   = Aurélio de Lira Tavares
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1905|11|7|df=y}}
|birth_place  = [[João Pessoa, Paraíba|João Pessoa]], [[Paraíba]], Brazil
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1998|11|18|1905|11|7|df=y}}
|death_place  = [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil
|branch       = {{flag|Brazil|army}} [[Brazilian Army]]
|rank         = [[File:General do Exército.gif|35px]] [[Army general|General]]
}}
'''Aurélio de Lira Tavares''' (7 November 1905m [[João Pessoa, Paraíba|João Pessoa]]&ndash;18 November 1998) was a [[general]] in the [[Brazilian Army]]. He was one of the military in the [[Brazilian Military Junta of 1969|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.<ref>[https://www18.fgv.br/cpdoc/acervo/dicionarios/verbete-biografico/aurelio-de-lira-tavaresFGV CPDOC: Aurélio de Lira Tavares]</ref>
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.<ref> Newton, Michael (1 April 2002): "ELBRICK, Charles Burke". In: ''The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings''. Checkmark Books. {{ISBN|9781438129884}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of presidents of Brazil]]
* [[Brazilian military government]]
* [[Augusto Rademaker]]
* [[Márcio Melo]]
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{{s-ttl|title=[[Brazilian military junta of 1969|Member of the Brazilian Military Junta]]|years=1969|alongside=[[Augusto Rademaker]], [[Márcio Melo]]}}
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{{s-ttl|title=[[Ministry of War (Brazil)|Minister of the Army]]|years=1967–69}}
{{s-aft|after=Orlando Geisel}}
{{s-bef|before=[[Amaury Kruel]]}}
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{{s-aft|after=Amaury Kruel}}
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{{s-bef|before=Albino Silva}}
{{s-aft|after=Argemiro de Assis Brasil}}
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{{s-bef|before=Múcio Leão}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Academia Brasileira de Letras|6th Academic of the 20th Chair<br>of the Brazilian Academy of Letters]]|years=1970–1998}}
{{s-aft|after=Murilo Melo Filho}}
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[[Category:Military dictatorship in Brazil]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Brazil to France]]
[[Category:Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
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