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Tião Viana

Brazilian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ212394 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sebastião Afonso Viana Macedo Neves, better known as Tião Viana, is a Brazilian medical doctor, professor, and politician. He was formerly Governor of Acre and is a member of the Workers' Party. He served as interim President of the Senate in 2007. He is a professor at the Federal University of Acre.

Editorial summary

“Tião Viana” enters the record as brazilian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tião, Viana and Brazilian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-02-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tião, Viana and Brazilian.
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Why this record matters

“Tião Viana” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tião, Viana and Brazilian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q212394. VIAF identifies the subject as 28949223. The Library of Congress control number is n2005178008. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tião Viana” 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.