1950 in Brazil

Events in the year 1950 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra Vice President: Nereu Ramos

Governors

Alagoas: Silvestre PericlesAmazonas: Leopoldo da Silva Amorim NevesBahia: Otávio Mangabeira Ceará: Faustino de Albuquerque Espírito Santo: Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg Goiás:

*Jerônimo Coimbra Bueno
*Hosanah Guimarães Maranhão: Sebastian ArcherMato Grosso:
*Arnaldo Estêvão de Figueiredo
*Jari Gomes Minas Gerais: Milton Soares CamposPará:
*Luís de Moura Carvalho
*Alberto Engelhard Paraíba: Osvaldo Trigueiro Paraná: Moisés Lupion Pernambuco: Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Piauí: José da Rocha Furtado Rio de Janeiro: Macedo Soares Rio Grande do Norte: José Augusto Varela Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Só Jobim Santa Catarina: Aderbal Ramos da Silva São Paulo: Ademar de Barros Sergipe: Jose Rollemberg

Vice governors

Ceará: Francisco de Menezes Pimentel Espírito Santo: José Rodrigues Sette Goiás:

*Hosanah de Campos Guimarães
*Vacant thereafter Maranhão: Saturnino BelloMinas Gerais: José Ribeiro Pena Paraíba: José Targino Pereira da Costa Piauí: Osvaldo da Costa e Silva Rio Grande do Norte: Tomaz SalustinoSão Paulo: Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior

Events

date unknown - After being grounded because of a shortage of equipment, the airline Transportes Aéreos Bandeirantes is sold to Lóide Aéreo Nacional.

April

6 April: At Tanguá on the Leopoldina Railway, heavy rain causes flooding in the Rio Tanguá and a bridge to collapse under a train going from Rio de Janeiro to Vitória. The locomotive and several cars fall into the river; 90 people swim to safety, but 110 are killed and over 300 injured.