Márcio Melo | |
Office: | Member of the Brazilian Military Junta |
Term Start: | 31 August 1969 |
Term End: | 30 October 1969 |
Predecessor: | Artur da Costa e Silva (as President) |
Successor: | Emílio Garrastazu Médici (as President) |
Alongside: | Augusto Rademaker, Lira Tavares |
Office1: | Minister of Aeronautics |
Term Start1: | 15 March 1967 |
Term End1: | 29 November 1971 |
Predecessor1: | Eduardo Gomes |
Successor1: | Joelmir Campos de Araripe Macedo |
Term Start2: | 15 December 1964 |
Term End2: | 11 January 1965 |
President2: | Castelo Branco |
Predecessor2: | Nelson Freire Lavanère-Wanderley |
Successor2: | Eduardo Gomes |
Birth Name: | Márcio de Sousa Melo |
Birth Date: | 26 May 1906 |
Birth Place: | Florianópolis,, Brazil |
Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro,, Brazil |
Spouse: | Zilda Andrade |
Children: | 2 |
Parents: | Francisco Agostinho de Sousa (father) Maria dos Anjos Malheiros (mother) |
Allegiance: | Brazil |
Battles: | |
Rank: | Marshal of the Air |
Mawards: | Grand Cross of the Military Order of Aviz Commander of the Order of Aeronautical Merit |
Márcio de Sousa e Melo (26 May 1906 – 31 January 1991[1]) was a general with the Brazilian Air Force. Melo was one of the military in the 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.
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.