{{Short description|Brazilian politician (1920–2004)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Celso Brant | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|04|24|1920|12|16|df=y}} | predecessor3 = [[Clóvis Salgado]] | office3 = [[Ministry of Education (Brazil)|Minister of Education]]<br>{{Small|Acting}} | successor3 = [[Nereu Ramos]] | term_end3 = 3 October 1956 | term_start3 = 30 April 1956 | death_place = [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|12|16|df=y}} | party = [[Avante (political party)|AVANTE]] <small>(1999-2004)</small> | birth_place = [[Diamantina, Minas Gerais|Diamantina]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil | term_start2 = 1 February 1959 | term_end2 = 31 December 1963 | office2 = [[Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)|Federal Deputy]] for [[Minas Gerais]] | term_start1 = 1 January 1993 | term_end1 = 31 December 1996 | office1 = Alderman of [[Belo Horizonte]] | president3 = [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] | office = National President of the [[National Mobilization Party]] | predecessor = ''Position established'' | successor = [[Oscar Noronha Filho]] | term_start = April 21, 1984 | term_end = June 1999 | other_party = [[National Mobilization Party|PMN]] <small>(1985-1999)</small><br /> [[Brazilian Labour Party (current)|PTB]] <small>(1981–1985)</small><br />[[Republican Party (Brazil)|PR]] <small>(1954–1964) </small> | image = Celso Brant como Deputado Federal.jpg }}
'''Celso Teixeira Brant''' (December 16, 1920 - April 24, 2004) was a Brazilian jurist, university professor of the [[Federal University of Minas Gerais|Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)]], writer and politician. He was the [[Party of National Mobilization|National Mobilization Party (PMN)]] candidate for [[President of Brazil]] in the [[1998 Brazilian general election|1989 General Election]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=CELSO TEIXEIRA BRANT|url=http://www.fgv.br/cpdoc/acervo/dicionarios/verbete-biografico/celso-teixeira-brant|last=Brasil|first=CPDOC-Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação História Contemporânea do|website=CPDOC - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil|language=pt-br|access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref>
== Biography == For being [[Clóvis Salgado]]'s cabinet chief, he became the acting [[Ministry of Education (Brazil)|Minister of Education]] between April and October 1956.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Galeria de Ministros - Ministro Celso Teixeira Brant|url=http://portal.mec.gov.br/setec-secretaria-de-educacao-profissional-e-tecnologica/webconferencia/97-conhecaomec-1447013193/omec-1749236901/13503-galeria-de-ministros-ministro-celso-teixeira-brant|website=portal.mec.gov.br|language=pt-br|access-date=2020-05-30}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
In the [[1958 Brazilian legislative election|1958 Legislative Elections]] he was elected Federal Deputy from [[Minas Gerais]] by the [[Republican Party (Brazil)|Republican Party (PR)]], adhering to the [[National Parliamentary Group.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biografia do(a) Deputado(a) Federal CELSO BRANT|url=https://www.camara.leg.br/deputados/130737/biografia|website=Portal da Câmara dos Deputados|language=pt-br|access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref>
Brant was nominated and ran for [[President of Brazil]] in the [[1998 Brazilian general election|1989 General Election]] by [[Party of National Mobilization|National Mobilization Party (PMN)]], receiving 109,909 votes or 0,16% of the valid votes. In the [[1992 Brazilian Municipal Elections|1992 Municipal Elections]] he was elected Alderman of [[Belo Horizonte]] also by the [[Party of National Mobilization|PMN]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=CELSO TEIXEIRA BRANT|url=http://www.fgv.br/cpdoc/acervo/dicionarios/verbete-biografico/celso-teixeira-brant|last=Brasil|first=CPDOC-Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação História Contemporânea do|website=CPDOC - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil|language=pt-br|access-date=2020-05-30}}</ref>
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