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Alacid Nunes
Brazilian politician
Alacid da Silva Nunes (25 November 1924 – 5 September 2015) was a Brazilian politician and retired military commander and colonel. Nunes served as the governor of the Brazilian state of Pará for two nonconsecutive tenures: 1966 to 1971 and from 1979 until 1983.[1] He also briefly served as the Mayor of Belém from 1964 to 1965 before leaving the office to successfully pursue his candidacy for Governor of Pará.[1][2][3]
Nunes graduated from the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras in Rio de Janeiro[1] and the Federal University of Pará. By 1960, Nunes was the commander of the Zona Militar Norte (Northern Military Zone), based in Recife.[1] He was transferred in 1961 to the Federal Territory of Amapá (now a present-day Brazilian state) as the territory's Security Secretary.[1] He then headed the 8Th Circunscrição de Recrutamento (28th Recruitment District), based in Belém, from 1961 to 1964.[1]
Alacid Nunes was appointed Mayor of Belém in 1964, the same year as the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état and the installation of the Brazilian military government.[1] He resigned from the mayor's office in 1965 to stand for election in the Pará gubernatorial election.[1] Nunes was narrowly elected Governor of Pará as a candidate for National Democratic Union (UDN).[1] He served as governor from 1966 until 1971. Nunes largely left politics from 1971 to 1974 to run a cement factory in Capanema, Pará.[1]
Nunes served as a deputy in the federal Chamber of Deputies from 1975 to 1979. In 1979, Nunes was appointed to his old position of Governor of Pará.[1] He served as Pará's appointed governor from 1979 to 1983.[1]
In 1990,[1] Nunes was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies, where he served from 1991 to 1995.
Alacid Nunes died from a heart attack at his ranch in Marajó on 5 September 2015, at the age of 90.[1] He was buried with full military honors in his family plot at the Cemitério Santa Izabel in the Guamá neighborhood of Belém.[1]