Ottomar Pinto

Ottomar Pinto
2nd and 5th Governor of Roraima
In office March 15, 1991 - January 1, 1995 November 10, 2004 – December 11, 2007
Preceded by	Romero Jucá Filho (1991) Francisco Flamarion Portela (2004)
Succeeded by	Neudo Ribeiro Campos (1995) José de Anchieta Júnior (2007)
Personal details
Born	January 19, 1931 Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil
Died	December 11, 2007 Brasília, Brazil
Political party	Brazilian Social Democracy Party
Spouse(s)	Marluce Pinto

Ottomar de Sousa Pinto (January 19, 1931 – December 11, 2007) was a Brazilian politician, who was Governor of the state of Roraima from November 2004 until his death in December 2007. He was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.

He was born in Petrolina, Pernambuco. He was a brigadier in the Brazilian Air Force.

He studied in Petrolina and Recife before enterring the aeronautic school at Campos dos Afonsos in Rio de Janeiro. He completed the course for a military staff in 1973 and became a colonel. During his military career, he realized six superior level courses, in civil engineering, electrical engineering, medicine, law, accounting, and economics. He completed two master's courses in the United States, and took courses for an MBA from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and law at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), also in Rio.

Pinto undertook activities related to the construction, reform, and enlargement of some of the most important airports in Brazil. He led the Comissão de Aeroportos da Região Amazônica (Comara).

He died in Brasília.

In 1979 he was appointed as governor of the then-federal territory of Roraima, which he served until 1983. This term was marked principally with involvement in encouraging settlement and socio-economic development, with an aim towards transforming the territory into a state. In 1985 he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Boa Vista, before becoming a federal deputy from 1986–1990, jointly with his wife, Marluce Pinto.

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