Antônio Hamilton Mourão

Antônio Hamilton Martins Mourão (born 15 August 1953 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian retired army general of the Brazilian Army. Mourão has the post of army general, that highest post a military can reach in the Brazilian Army in peace times. Is son of also General Antônio Hamilton Mourão and Wanda Coronel Martins. He retired in 28 February 2018.

Military career
Joined the Army on February 1972, in the Agulhas Negras Military Academy (AMAN), in Resende, Rio de Janeiro, where, in 12 December 1975, was declared Officer aspirant.

Lateer, had classes of Formation, Improvement, High Military Studies of Command School and Major-State of Army and classes of Politics, Strategy and Army High Administration, besides classes of Basic Parachuting, Jump Master and Free Jump.

During his military life, was instructor of AMAN, had a Peace Mission in Angola and was Military Attache in Brazil's Embassy in Venezuela. Commanded the 27th Group of Campaign Artillery in Ijuí, Rio Granse do Sul; the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Wild in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas; the 6th Army Division and Military Command of the South in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.

Positions
Mourão gained notoriety in 2015 during the political crisis in the second term of president Dilma Rousseff, when he was transferred from the Military Command of the South (CMS) to the Secretary of Economy and Finance, in the Federal District, due to statements made in a speech about the political context at the time.

In a public announcement in the Masonic Lodge Grande Oriente on September 2017, in the Federal District, Mourão stated that, "among the duties of the Brazilian Army, there was the guarantee of the operation of the institutions and of the law and order, and that, if the judiciary couldn't be able to heal the existing politics in the country, this would be imposed by the army through a military intervention, what, in his vision, is provided by the Federal Constitution of 1988." Leaving the active service in 2018, Mourão discussed whether or not he should run for president of the Military Club. In 8 May 2018, Mourão announced his filiaton to the Brazilian Labor Renewal Party (PRTB), and his intention to run for President of Brazil, along with Levy Fidelix.