Leomar de Melo Quintanilha (born Goiânia

Goiânia

-Climate:The city has a tropical wet and dry climate with an average temperature of . There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. Annual rainfall is around 1,520 mm....

, October 23, 1945) is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian politician. Formerly a banker with the Banco do Brasil

Banco do Brasil

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, he served in the Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies of Brazil

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 representing Tocantins

Tocantins

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

Senate of Brazil

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. He is a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. He is the president of the Federação Tocantinense de Futebol

Federação Tocantinense de Futebol

The Federação Tocantinense de Futebol was founded on April 7, 1990, and it manages all the official football tournaments within the state of Tocantins, which are the Campeonato Tocantinense, the Campeonato Tocantinense lower levels and the Copa Tocantins, and represents the clubs at the Brazilian...

since its foundation in 1990.

Reference

• Page at Senate website