Bonifácio José Tamm de Andrada (14 May 1930 – 5 January 2021) was a Brazilian politician affiliated to Democrats (DEM), law academic, university professor, political scientist and journalist.
Born in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, he was a member of several political parties throughout his career.
Previously, he was councillor for Barbacena, from 1954 to 1958, and state deputy in Minas Gerais, from 1959 to 1975, having thus held legislative positions for sixty years. He was also a candidate for Vice President of the Republic in the 1989 elections, joining Paulo Maluf's ticket.
From 1979 to 2019, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, having served ten consecutive terms.
Political career
Bonifácio was one of the founders of the National Campaign for Free Educandários – (CNEC) in the 1950s and graduated in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro after having completed the first years of the course at Faculdade Mineira de Direito. After graduating, he started private law in his hometown, where he was elected councilor for a term (1954 to 1958) by the UDN. He was a state deputy in Minas Gerais for four consecutive terms (1959–1975), for the UDN in the first two and for ARENA in the others.[1][2][3][4]
He was a federal deputy for Minas Gerais for the tenth consecutive term (since 1979), elected by the National Renovating Alliance (ARENA) in his first term, by the Social Democratic Party (PDS) in the following 3, by the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) in the 1994 elections. and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) since then.[5]
Andrada founded in Barbacena, together with his father, the weekly Correio da Serra in 1954, a staunch opposition newspaper of the "udenist" line of which he was editor-in-chief for many years. He was affiliated to the UDN (1954–1965) – for which he was elected councilor and state deputy, when he defended, among other topics, the parliamentary regime (on which, even, he has published works), ARENA (1966–1979), PDS (1980–1993), PTB (1994–1996) and PSDB (since 1997).
In August 2017, Andrada voted against the lawsuit in which he was asked to open an investigation by then President Michel Temer, helping to file the complaint of the Federal Public Ministry.[7][8] In September 2017, he was chosen by the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) to be the rapporteur of the second complaint against the President of the Republic Michel Temer for the crimes of obstruction to Justice and criminal organization. On 10 October, he recommended that the complaint be rejected by the CCJ.[9][10]
Public positions
Andrada began his public life as a cabinet officer for the Minister of Agriculture (1955) in the Eurico Gaspar Dutra government. After having served several elective terms, he was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Culture of Minas Gerais (1965) under the then governor Magalhães Pinto. Later, he would occupy the Minas Gerais State Secretariat of Interior and Justice (1974–1977) during the Aureliano Chaves government. And after successive federal parliamentary terms, he was invited during the government by Hélio Garcia to be once again the head of state secretariat – now the secretary of Administration and Human Resources (1994–1997).
He was married to Amália Borges de Andrada and left 8 children, including politicians like Antônio Carlos Doorgal de Andrada and Lafayette Luiz Doorgal de Andrada, the former attorney general of the Union and deputy attorney general of the Republic José Bonifácio Borges de Andrada, and the judge of the TJMG Doorgal Gustavo Borges de Andrada.[11] He was Roman Catholic.[12][13]
