Jerônimo Garcia de Santana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian lawyer (1934-2014)
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Place of Birth: Jataí, Goiás, Brazil
About Jerônimo Garcia de Santana
- Jerônimo Garcia de Santana (October 29, 1934 – September 11, 2014) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer who served as the governor of Rondônia from 1987 until 1991.
- He was the first governor of Rondônia to be elected through direct election.Jerônimo Garcia de Santana was elected as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1970, 1974 and 1978 as a member of the PMDB.
- He was elected mayor of Porto Velho on November 15, 1985, and sworn into office on January 1, 1986.
- He resigned from the mayoral office in May 1986 to run for governor in the 1986 Rondônia gubernatorial election.Garcia de Santana attempted a political comeback in 1994, won the gubernatorial contest, becoming the first governor of Rondônia to be directly elected.
- He served until 1991.Jerônimo Garcia de Santana attempted a political comeback in 1994, was he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Rondônia as a member of the Reform Progressive Party (PPR).
- In 1998, he lost election to the Chamber of Deputies, this time as a Liberal Front Party (PLF) candidate.He died from respiratory failure at the Hospital Santa Luzia in Brasilia on September 11, 2014, at the age of 79.
- He had suffered from diabetes and hypertension.
- His funeral was held in Brasilia on September 15, 2014.
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