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    Juscelino Kubitschek

    President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961

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  1. Juscelino Kubitschek. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuseˈlinu kubiˈʃɛk (i) dʒi oliˈve (j)ɾɐ]; 12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976), also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961.

    • 1931–1933, 1937–1940
    • PP (1934–1937), PSD (1945–1965)
  2. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (1902-1976) was president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961 and became a symbol for Brazil's economic development. However, his later years were marred by severe persecution at the hands of the military men who seized control of Brazil in April of 1964. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira was born on September 12, 1902 ...

  3. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. His term was marked by economic prosperity and political stability, being most known for the construction of a new capital, Brasília.

  4. Brasilia was the cornerstone of Kubitschek’s agenda and is what the former president is most remembered for today. The legacy of Kubitschek’s presidency is still a major source of discussion. Kubitschek brought 80 percent industrial growth, to an extent modernizing the nation, and Brasilia was seen as the personification of Brazil’s ...

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  6. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira ( b. 12 September 1902; d. 22 August 1976), president of Brazil (1956–1961), founder of Brasília (1960). Born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, an impoverished colonial diamond-mining town, Kubitschek and his older sister were raised on the spare resources of their resolute and independent schoolteacher mother.

  7. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (1902-1976) Brazilian President—of Czech descent—educated as a medical doctor. Native of Minas Gerais where he pursued an eventual political career—as Mayor of Belo Horizonte, Governor of Minas Gerais and then President of Brazil. A later victim of military persecution, he was forced into exile in Portugal ...

  8. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, also known by his initials JK, was the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. He was very popular because the economy of the country was good when he was president.

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