Eliseu Lemos Padilha (23 December 1945 – 13 March 2023) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician, who was appointed by then-President

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as the minister of the Brazilian Civil Aeronautics Government Department. He was in office from 1 January 2015 to 1 December 2015. He also served as minister of Transport and Infrastructure between 1997 and 2001 (appointed by then-President

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) and for four terms as federal congressman of the state of

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, his birthplace. Padilha was one of the few ministers to have resigned from a ministerial office because of a divergent position from their government's policies. Padilha died on 13 March 2023, at age 77.

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