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Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2023

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.

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The public source identifies “Jair Bolsonaro” as president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jair, Bolsonaro and President.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2023, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jair, Bolsonaro and President providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jair Bolsonaro” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.