{{Short description|Vice President of Brazil from 1979 to 1985}} {{for|the building in Belo Horizonte, Brazil|Aureliano Chaves building}} {{Multiple issues| {{More citations needed|date=September 2022}} {{Expand Portuguese|Aureliano Chaves|date=October 2010|topic=bio}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Aureliano Chaves | image = Aureliano Chaves (1982).jpg | alt = | caption = | office = 19th Vice President of Brazil | term_start = 15 March 1979 | term_end = 15 March 1985 | president = João Figueiredo | predecessor = Adalberto Pereira dos Santos | successor = José Sarney | office2 = Minister of Mines and Energy | term_start2 = 15 March 1985 | term_end2 = 22 December 1988 | president2 = José Sarney | predecessor2 = César Cals | successor2 = Iris Rezende | office3 = Governor of Minas Gerais | term_start3 = 15 March 1975 | term_end3 = 5 July 1978 | vice_governor3 = Levindo Ozanam Coelho | predecessor3 = Rondon Pacheco | successor3 = Levindo Ozanam Coelho | office4 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start4 = 1 February 1967 | term_end4 = 1 February 1975 | constituency4 = Minas Gerais | office5 = State Deputy of Minas Gerais | term_start5 = 1 February 1959 | term_end5 = 1 February 1967 | constituency5 = At-large | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|1|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Três Pontas, Minas Gerais, Brazil | death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|4|30|1929|1|13|df=y}} | death_place = Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | party = {{Plainlist| * UDN (Before 1966) * ARENA (1966–1979) * PDS (1979–1985) * PFL (1985–2003) }} | spouse = Vivi Chaves }}
'''Aureliano Chaves''' (13 January 1929 – 30 April 2003) was a Brazilian politician.
Born in Três Pontas, state of Minas Gerais, he was a Representative of this state in the Chamber of Deputies in 1967 from the ARENA party. He was selected as the governor of Minas Gerais state from 1975 to 1978 and was elected vice-president in 1979 under João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo. He acted as president during Figueiredo's health crisis in 1981 and 1983.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoge |first=Warren |date=1981-09-20 |title=BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT SUFFERS HEART ATTACK |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/20/world/brazilian-president-suffers-heart-attack.html |access-date=2022-08-23 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
After the democratization of Brazil, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Brazil. After the elections of 1989 he retired from politics.
==See also== *List of governors of Minas Gerais
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