Born in
Recife, Monteiro Filho was the son of
Armando de Queiroz Monteiro, a former Governor of
Pernambuco, and Maria José Dourado de Queiroz Monteiro. His father-in-law was
Agamenon Magalhães, another former Governor of Pernambuca (1937–1945, 1951–1952), as well as Minister of Justice and the Interior in 1945. Monteiro graduated from the University of Recife with a degree in engineering in 1945. Monteiro Filho was elected to the state
Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco in 1950 as a member of the now defunct
Social Democratic Party (PSD). In 1954, he was elected to the federal
Chamber of Deputies, winning the most votes of any Chamber candidate in the entire state of Pernambuco that year. From 1961 until 1962, he joined the government of President
João Goulart as Brazil's federal
Minister of Agriculture of Brazil. Monteiro Filho unsuccessfully campaigned for
Governor of Pernambuco, but lost to
Miguel Arraes in the gubernatorial general election. Following the
1964 Brazilian coup d'état and ouster of President Goulart, Monteiro Filho switched to the
Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) during the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. He then switched parties and joined the
Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He ran for the
Federal Senate in 1994 as a PDT candidate, but lost the election. He then switched to the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) again in 1998. Armando Monteiro Filho died at his home in the Zona Sul neighborhood of Recife on January 2, 2018, at the age of 92. He had been in declining health and had suffered from respiratory illness since December 2017. He was survived by five children, including former Senator
Armando Monteiro, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. He was buried in the Cemitério Morada da Paz in
Paulista. ==References==