Teotônio Brandão Vilela Filho ( Viçosa, Alagoas, January 29, 1951) is a Brazilian

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and

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from 2007 to 2015. He graduated at the Universidade de Brasília and then specialized in

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at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He is a son of Teotônio Brandão Vilela and Lenita Quintela. Brandão Vilela's degree in economics from the University of Brasilia (UNB), majoring in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). He is one of the sons of the former senator Teôtonio Vilela, and was one of the founders of the PSDB. In 1986, he won his first Senate elections, becoming, at the time, the youngest senator to ever take office in

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. He was re-elected for that in 1994 and 2002. In 2006 he was elected the governor of

, being re-elected in 2010. In 1997, Vilela was made a Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). The same year he received the Order of Military Merit of Brazil, and in 2000 the Order of Merit of Portugal.

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Living people 1951 births Governors of Alagoas Brazilian Social Democracy Party politicians Members of the Federal Senate (Brazil) Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire People from Viçosa, Alagoas {{Brazil-economist-stub