This is a list of Governors of the Brazil

Brazil

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ian Federal District.

The Federal District

Federal district

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 is coterminous with Brasília

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

, in the interior of the country. Prior to 1960, the Federal District corresponded to the municipality of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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; when the federal capital was relocated to Brasília, the former federal district became the state of Guanabara, which after 15 years of autonomy, was absorbed into the state of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (state)

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 in 1975.

Distrito Federal in Brasília

Governor	Date in office	Party
Agnelo Queiroz	2011 -	PT
Rogério Rosso	2010	PMDB
Wilson Lima	2010	PSD
Paulo Octávio	2010	DEM
José Roberto Arruda	2007-2010	PFL (later renamed DEM)
Maria de Lourdes Abadia	2006-2007	PSDB
Joaquim Domingos Roriz	1999-2006	PMDB
Cristóvam R. C. Buarque	1995-1999	PT
Joaquim Domingos Roriz	1991-1995	PTR
Wanderley Vallim	1990-1991
Joaquim Domingos Roriz	1988-1990
José Aparecido de Oliveira	1985-1988
Ronaldo Costa Couto	1985
José Ornellas de Souza Filho	1982-1985
Aimé Alcebíades Silveira Lamaison	1979-1982
Elmo Serejo Farias	1974-1979
Hélio Prates da Silveira	1969-1974
Wadjó da Costa Gomide	1967-1969
Plínio Reis de Cantanhede Almeida	1964-1967
Ivan de Souza Mendes	1964
Ivo de Magalhães	1962-1964
José Sette Câmara Filho	1961-1962
Ângelo Dário Rizzi	1961
Paulo de Tarso Santos	1961
Bayard Lucas de Lima	1961
Israel Pinheiro da Silva Israel Pinheiro da Silva Israel Pinheiro da Silva was a Brazilian politician and engineer.He was born in Serro, state of Minas Gerais.Pinheiro da Silva was a friend of President Juscelino Kubitschek and was nominated by him the engineer chief of the construction of Brasília, which took place between 1956 and 1960...	1960-1961

Distrito Federal in Rio de Janeiro

Governor	Date in office	?
José J. de Sá Freire Alvim José J. de Sá Freire Alvim José J. de Sá Freire Alvim was a Brazilian mayor of the Distrito Federal of Rio de Janeiro from 1958 to 1960.-References:* ABREU, Alzira Alves de; BELOCH, Israel . Dicionário histórico-biográfico brasileiro . Rio de Janeiro: Forense-Universitária; FGV-CPDOC; Finep, 1984.* OLIVEIRA REIS, José de...	1958-1960
Francisco Negrão de Lima	1956-1958	PTB
Francisco de Sá Lessa	1955-1956
Eitel de Oliveira Lima	1955
Alim Pedro	1954-1955
Dulcídio Cardoso	1952-1954
João Carlos Vital	1951-1952
Ângelo Mendes de Morais	1947-1951
Hildebrando de Araújo Góis	1946-1947
Filadelfo de Barros Azevedo	1945-1946
Henrique de Toledo Dodsworth	1937-1945
Olímpio de Melo	1936-1937
Pedro Ernesto Batista	1935-1936
Carlos Sampaio	1920-1922
Paulo de Frontin	1919