Asdrubal Bentes | |
Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Pará |
Term Start: | 1 February 2001 |
Term End: | 26 March 2014 |
Term Start2: | 1 February 1997 |
Term End2: | 31 January 1999 |
Term Start3: | 1 February 1987 |
Term End3: | 31 January 1991 |
Birth Name: | Asdrubal Mendes Bentes |
Birth Date: | 27 July 1939 |
Birth Place: | Humaitá, Amazonas, Brazil |
Party: | Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) |
Alma Mater: | Federal University of Pará |
Asdrubal Mendes Bentes (27 July 1939 – 27 April 2020) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer from the state of Pará.
He represented Pará in the national Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil, for several tenures beginning in 1987. Most recently, he served in the Chamber of Deputies for four consecutive terms from 1 February 2001, to 26 March 2014. He was also a former president of the Paysandu Sport Club, a Brazilian football team based in Belém.[1] [2]
Bentes was hospitalized in a Belém intensive care unit for COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil on 23 April 2020.[3] He died from complications of COVID-19 at the Hospital Aberlardo Santos in the Icoaraci district of Belém on April 27, 2020, at the age of 80.[1] [4]