Hélio Gueiros (12 December 1925 – 15 April 2011) was a Brazilian politician who served as the

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

Pará Pará is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state) ...

from 1987 to 1991. He also served as the

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Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...

from 1993 to 1996.

Biography

Gueiros worked as a journalist and lawyer before entering politics in the 1950s. He became a Pará

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in the 1960s. He also served as a congressman in the Chamber of Deputies for three consecutive terms in office. Gueiros left politics for approximately ten years during the

Brazilian military government The military dictatorship in Brazil ( pt, ditadura militar) was established on 1 April 1964, after a coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, against President João Goulart. The Brazilian dicta ...

. He served as a Senator in the

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from 1983 to 1987. Gueiros then served as the Governor of Pará from 1987 until 1991. Gueiros became the

, the capital city of Pará, from 1993 to 1996. In 2004, Gueiros unsuccessfully ran again for Mayor of Belém in the mayoral election. Gueiros died from

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at his home in

, Brazil, on 15 April 2011, at the age of 85. His memorial service was held at the Palácio Lauro Sodré, the former

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in Pará. Gueiros was buried at the Recanto da Saudade cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Terezinha.

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1925 births 2011 deaths Governors of Pará Mayors of Belém Members of the Federal Senate (Brazil) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Pará Brazilian journalists Male journalists 20th-century Brazilian lawyers Members of the Legislative Assembly of Pará {{Brazil-law-bio-stub

Biography

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