- Eduardo Gomes
Infobox Military Person
name= Eduardo Gomes
lived=20 September 1896 –13 June 1981
placeofbirth=Petrópolis ,Rio de Janeiro State ,Brazil
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allegiance=flag|Brazil
rank= "Marechal-do-ar"
(Air Marshal orMarshal of the Air )
branch=Brazilian Air Force
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laterwork=Air Marshal Eduardo Gomes (
20 September 1896 –13 June 1981 ) was a Brazilian politician and military figure. He was born inPetrópolis ,Rio de Janeiro State ,Brazil .Gomes joined the army when he started his course at the
Realengo Military School. He finished this course in 1918 and, in December of the same year, he was transferred toCuritiba . In 1921 he started his course at the Military Aviation School inRio de Janeiro . In the same year, the presidential campaign divided theoligarchies . Some military officers planned a coup to stop the candidate of the party in power,Artur da Silva Bernardes , if he was elected. However, the imprisonment of ex-presidentHermes Rodrigues da Fonseca and the closing of the Military Club precipitated the start a rebellion onJuly 5 ,1922 . The rebels gave up quickly and only 28 resisted inside theCopacabana Fortress . Gomes proposed that the rebels leave the fortress and face the government troops. They left, armed, and the diehard rebel group is still known as the "18 of the Copacabana Fortress".Gomes was arrested but in 1923 he left prison. At the end of 1924, Gomes tried to join another rebellion in the south of Brazil led by
Luís Carlos Prestes . He was arrested in Santa Catarina and transferred toRio de Janeiro . He was transferred from one prison to another, until he was sent toTrindade Island.When
Washington Luís becamePresident of Brazil in 1926, all the prisoners from Trindade Island were released. The next June, Gomes was nearly arrested again, but he escaped toCampos , inRio de Janeiro . Two years later, he handed himself in to the authorities and was imprisoned for two years.In 1930, Gomes was freed, and once again was involved in revolutionary activities -- this time with the intent of preventing presidential candidate
Júlio Prestes from taking office. With the victory of the rebels, the ouster of presidentWashington Luís , and his replacement byGetúlio Vargas , Gomes was appointed to the Ministry of War. At the time he completed his course to become a pilot.Gomes was in the group that created the Military Air Post ("Correio Aéreo Militar, CAM") in 1931. In December 1945 Gomes was a candidate for
president of Brazil , but he lost the election toEurico Gaspar Dutra . In October 1950 he ran again and lost toGetúlio Vargas .In 1954 he was the Minister of Aeronautics in the brief administration of
João Café Filho that followed the suicide of President Vargas. He was in favor of the military takeover in 1964 that overthrewJoão Goulart , a vice-president who had taken office in 1961 upon the resignation of Jânio Quadros. In February 1965, still as Minister of Aeronautics, Gomes signed a controversial decree that shut downPanair do Brasil , the country's flag carrier airline. He remained as Minister of Aeronautics until the end of the government ofHumberto de Alencar Castello Branco , when he left public life (1967). Eduardo Gomes died onJune 13 ,1981 .Eduardo Gomes International Airport , inManaus , Amazonas, is named after him.ee also
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