Events in the year 1951 in Brazil. Incumbents Federal government President: Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra (till 30 January); Getúlio Vargas (from 31 January) Vice President: Nereu Ramos (till 30 January); Café Filho (from 31 January) Governors Alagoas: Silvestre Pericles (till 31 January); Arnon de Mello (from 31 January) Amazonas: Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves (till 31 January); Álvaro Botelho Maia (from 31 January) Bahia: Otávio Mangabeira then Régis Pacheco Ceará: Faustino de Albuquerque (till 31 January); Raul Barbosa (from 31 January) Espírito Santo: Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg (till 31 January); Jones dos Santos Neves (from 31 January) Goiás: Hosanah Guimarães (till 31 January); Pedro Ludovico Teixeira (from 31 January) Maranhão: Mato Grosso: Jari Gomes then Fernando Corrêa da Costa Minas Gerais: Milton Soares Campos (till 31 January); Juscelino Kubitschek (from 31 January) Pará: till 25 January: Alberto Engelhard 25 January-27 January: Waldir Bouhid 27 January-9 February: Arnaldo Lobo 9 February-20 February: Abel Nunes de Figueiredo starting 20 February: Zacarias de Assumpção Paraíba: Osvaldo Trigueiro (till 31 January); José Américo de Almeida (from 31 January) Paraná: Moisés Lupion then Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto Pernambuco: Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (till 31 January); Agamenon Magalhães (from 31 January) Piauí: José da Rocha Furtado (till 31 January); Pedro Freitas (from 31 January) Rio de Janeiro: Macedo Soares (till 31 January); Amaral Peixoto (from 31 January) Rio Grande do Norte: until 31 January: José Augusto Varela 31 January-16 July: Jerome Dix - Sept Rosado Maia from 16 July: Silvio Piza Pedrosa Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Só Jobim (till 31 January); Ernesto Dornelles (from 31 January) Santa Catarina: Aderbal Ramos da Silva (till 31 January); Irineu Bornhausen (from 31 January) São Paulo: Ademar de Barros (till 31 January); Lucas Nogueira Garcez (from 31 January) Sergipe: till 31 January: Jose Rollemberg 31 January-17 February: João Dantas Martins dos Reis 17 February-12 March Edélzio Vieira de Melo from 12 March: Arnaldo Rollemberg Garcez Vice governors Alagoas: Francisco de Menezes Pimentel (till 31 January); Antônio Guedes de Miranda (from 31 January) Ceará: Stênio Gomes da Silva Espírito Santo: José Rodrigues Sette (till 31 January); Francisco Alves Ataíde (from 31 January) Goiás: Jonas Ferreira Alves Duarte (from 31 January) Maranhão: Saturnino Bello (till 31 January); Renato Bayma Archer da Silva (from 31 January) Mato Grosso: João Leite de Barros (from 31 January) Minas Gerais: José Ribeiro Pena (till 31 January); Clóvis Salgado da Gama (from 31 January) Paraíba: