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Army General
Juarez Távora
Army General Juarez Távora
Minister of Transport and Public Works
	In office; 15 April 1964 – 15 March 1967
President	Castelo Branco
Preceded by	Augusto Rademaker
Succeeded by	Mário Andreazza
	In office; 4 November 1930 – 5 November 1930
President	Getúlio Vargas
Preceded by	Morais Barros (interim)
Succeeded by	Morais Barros (interim)
Chief Minister of the Military Cabinet
	In office; 24 August 1954 – 14 April 1955
President	Café Filho
Preceded by	Caiado de Castro
Succeeded by	Bina Machado
Minister of Agriculture
	In office; 22 December 1932 – 24 July 1934
President	Getúlio Vargas
Preceded by	Assis Brasil
Succeeded by	Navarro de Andrade (interim)
Personal details
Born	14 January 1898; Jaguaribemirim, Ceará, Brazil
Died	18 July 1975 (aged 77); Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma mater	Military School of Realengo
Occupation	Military officer, politician
Signature
Nickname	Vice-rei do Norte (Viceroy of the North)
Military service
Allegiance	Brazil
Branch/service	Brazilian Army
Years of service	1916–1975
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Copacabana Fort revolt; São Paulo Revolt of 1924; Coluna Prestes; Revolution of 1930; Constitutionalist Revolution;

Juarez do Nascimento Fernandes Távora (Jaguaribemirim^[a], 14 January 1898 – Rio de Janeiro, 18 July 1975) was a Brazilian general and politician active during the Brazilian Revolution of 1930 that put an end to the oligarchic First Brazilian Republic by deposing the president Washington Luís and preventing his elected successor Júlio Prestes from taking office. The revolutionaries handed power over to Getúlio Vargas.^[1]

Most active during the revolutionary cycle that swept Brazil from 1922 to 1930, he got to know the country's bowels and its problems by participating in the Coluna Prestes. With this experience, he associated what he saw with the studies of Alberto Torres and Euclides da Cunha, of whom he was an admirer. Hence his deep interest in Brazilian problems and how the State and government should structure themselves to solve them.^[2]

He came to be known as the Vice-rei do Norte (Viceroy of the North) during the 1930 Revolution, since he was commander of the troops that took over most of Brazil's northeastern states (at that time these states were referred simply as "the north").^[3]

Early life

Távora was the 15th son of Joaquim Antônio do Nascimento and Clara Fernandes Távora do Nascimento, owners of the Embargo farm where Távora was born. His name was suggested by his older brother, Manuel do Nascimento Fernandes Távora, that at the time of his birth studied medicine in Rio de Janeiro and was a great admirer of Mexican president Benito Juárez.^[4]

His family, according to biographers, was related to the nobility of Portugal. His maternal uncle, Belisário Távora, also stood out as head of the Federal District's police in the government of president Hermes da Fonseca (1910-1914).^[5]

He did his first studies with his mother and at the school of his sister Isabel, in the town of Estreito, from where he later transferred to the school of Professor Cosme Alves da Silva, his cousin, in the town of Caranguejo Novo. Returning to his family's farm in early 1908, he traveled a year later, with his brother Fernando, to Quixadá, where he studied at the boarding school of Instituto Chaves. In May 1911, he went with his brothers Ademar and Fernando to Rio de Janeiro, in order to attend secondary school, which would be paid for by his older brothers Ana Ajuricaba, Manuel and Joaquim. In Rio, they lived in a boarding house while attending the Pedro II School, where they studied until the beginning of 1912. On that occasion, Joaquim Távora, who was an Army officer, was transferred to Rio Grande do Sul to teach Latin at the Military College of Porto Alegre. However, before heading south with Fernando and Juarez, Joaquim interned them for four months at the Asilo do Patrocínio, in Juiz de Fora, so they could finish their secondary education.^[6]

Later years

In Porto Alegre, Fernando and Juarez attended, from 1912 to 1914, the Júlio de Castilhos School, an educational institution of the state government. In early 1914, with the extinction of the Latin chair at Military College of Porto Alegre, Joaquim returned to Rio de Janeiro with his two young brothers. In 1915, Juarez and Fernando entered the engineering course at the Polytechnic School of Rio de Janeiro, but were forced to interrupt it at the beginning of their second year, due to financial difficulties. They then decided to transfer to the Military School of Realengo, in the same city. As they attended the Polytechnic School, admission to that military institution was made, in accordance with the law in force at the time, without an admission exam. Thus, in May 1916, in order to obtain the necessary certificate of military training, the two brothers joined the 4th Company of Establishment, in Realengo. In 1917 both joined the Military School, leaving in December 1919 as officer aspirant of military engineering. Promoted to second lieutenant in April of the following year, they started to serve in the 5th Engineering Battalion, in Curitiba, after doing an internship in the 1st Engineering Battalion in Vila Militar.^[7]