Israel Pinheiro
Brazilian politician and engineer
Israel Pinheiro da Silva (4 January 1896 , 6 July 1973) was a Brazilian politician and engineer.
Pinheiro da Silva was a friend of President Juscelino Kubitschek and was nominated by him the engineer chief of the construction of Brasília, which took place between 1956 and 1960. Despite being an opponent of the military regime installed in 1964, Pinheiro da Silva was elected governor of Minas Gerais in a disputed election in 1965 and he served from 1966 to 1971. He continued the industrialization of the state, started by his predecessors. Pinheiro da Silva was the last directly elected governor of Minas Gerais until 1982.
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- Israel Pinheiro da Silva (cropped).png by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
- Metal bust of Israel Pinheiro da Silva at the Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer - Daniel Guimaraes Rego - Daniel G. Rego - Dan Rego.jpg by Daniel G Rego, CC BY-SA 4.0
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