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TIL in 1926 Brazil had a president with name of Washington but was overthrown in a coup d'etat and removed from the presidency during Revolution of 1930,putting an end to Milk coffee politics and starting the Vargas Era in 1930.Washington served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic

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