Leomar de Melo Quintanilha (born October 23, 1945, in

Goiânia Goiânia (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás. With a population of 1,536,097, it is the second-largest city in the Central-West Region and the 10th-largest in the country. Its metropolitan area has a population ...

) is a Brazilian politician. Formerly a banker with the Banco do Brasil, he served in the

Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon R ...

representing

Tocantins Tocantins () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goiás. Tocantins covers and had an estimated population of 1,496,880 in 20 ...

from 1989 until 1995; since 1994 he has represented the state in the

Senate of Brazil The Federal Senate ( pt, Senado Federal) is the upper house of the National Congress of Brazil, National Congress of Brazil. When created under the Brazilian Constitution of 1824, Imperial Constitution in 1824, it was based on the House of Lo ...

. He is a member of the

Brazilian Democratic Movement Party The Brazilian Democratic Movement ( pt, Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, MDB) is a Brazilian political party. It is considered a " big tent party" and it is one of the parties with the greatest representation throughout the national territory, ...

. He is the president of the

Federação Tocantinense de Futebol The Federação Tocantinense de Futebol (English: Football Association of Tocantins state) was founded on April 7, 1990, and it manages all the official football tournaments within the state of Tocantins, which include the Campeonato Tocantinense ...

since its foundation in 1990.

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