Frederico Carlos Soares Campos (11 April 1927 – 1 March 2021) was a Brazilian politician who twice served as

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of his hometown,

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, and also served as the 45th governor of

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Biography

Campos was the nephew of General Dilermando Gomes Monteiro. He was appointed Mayor of Cuiabá by Mato Grosso governor

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, serving from 1966 to 1969. He worked in the government of Governor from 1975 to 1978. That year,

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appointed him Governor of Mato Grosso, the 45th person to hold the position. In 1988, Campos won his first election to become Mayor of Cuiabá as a member of the

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, having held the seat 20 years earlier. In 2006, he ran unsuccessfully as a member of the Brazilian Labour Party to the

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. Frederico Campos died from

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during the

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in Cuiabá on 1 March 2021 at the age of 93.

References

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