Affonso Camargo Neto

Affonso Alves de Camargo Netto (April 30, 1929 – March 24, 2011) was a Brazilian civil engineer and politician. He was the son of Pedro Alípio Alves de Camargo and Ismênia Marçallo de Camargo, grandson of the former governor of Paraná and descendant of the founder of Curitiba, bandeirante Baltasar Carrasco dos Reis.

He was vice governor of the state of Paraná, senator by the same state, besides federal deputy, elected in 1995, representing Paraná.

Camargo Netto was a candidate for president in 1989. His paternal family, formed by cattle ranchers and owners of refrigerators, had provided political pictures to the former Parana Republican Party. His grandfather, Affonso Alves de Camargo, was a state deputy for four terms (1898–1914), federal deputy (1921–1922), senator (1922–1927), and president of the State of Paraná twice (1916–1920) and 1928–1930) during the Old Republic. It occupied this last position when the outbreak of Revolution of 1930.

Affonso Camargo Netto was married to Gina Flores de Camargo, daughter of Fernando Flores, constituent of 1946 and federal deputy for Paraná between 1946 and 1955, with whom she had five children, of whom two adopted. He married for the second time in March 1994 with Nadir de Santa Maria de Camargo, with whom he had a son.

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