Antônio Henrique Bittencourt Cunha Bueno

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Cunha and the second or paternal family name is Bueno.

Antônio Henrique Cunha Bueno
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 February 1975 – 1 February 2003
Constituency	São Paulo
State Deputy of São Paulo
In office 1 February 1971 – 1 February 1975
Constituency	São Paulo
Personal details
Born	Antônio Henrique Bittencourt Cunha Bueno (1949-06-17) 17 June 1949 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Died	São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Political party	ARENA (1970–1979) PDS (1980–1993) PPR (1993–1995) PPB (1995–2003) PP (2003–2024)
Alma mater	Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Economy)

Antônio Henrique Bittencourt da Cunha Bueno GOIH ComMM (17 June 1949 – 22 January 2024) was a Brazilian economist and politician who served seven terms as a federal deputy for São Paulo.

Biography

He was born in São Paulo, the son of Antônio Sílvio Cunha Bueno and Edy Bittencourt Cunha Bueno. With a degree in Economics from Mackenzie University, Cunha Bueno was an insurance broker until he began his political career after his father was removed from office by Institutional Act Number Five on 16 January 1969. Affiliated to ARENA, he was elected to the state legislature in 1970 and to the federal legislature in 1974 and 1978, leaving to become Secretary of Culture in the Paulo Maluf government and then joining the PDS, for which he was re-elected in 1982, 1986 and 1990, surpassing his father's four terms in office. In the 2002 elections, he ran for the Senate in São Paulo, but was not elected.

During this period, Cunha Bueno was president of the state branch of the PDS and, in the exercise of his parliamentary mandate, he was absent from the vote on the Dante de Oliveira Amendment in 1984 and voted for Paulo Maluf in the Electoral College in 1985. As a participant in the National Constituent Assembly, he approved a proposal in the 1988 Constitution according to which there would be a plebiscite in 1993 to define the form and system of government in force in the country, in which the electorate maintained the presidential republic, despite the fact that he chaired the Monarchist Parliamentarian Movement and had the support of D. Pedro Alcântara Gastão Orléans e Bragança.

In 1987, Cunha Bueno was admitted to the Order of Prince Henry by President Mário Soares of Portugal in the rank of Special Grand Officer. In 1995, he was admitted by Fernando Henrique Cardoso to the Order of Military Merit in the rank of Special Commander.

The son-in-law of Pernambuco politician Nilo Coelho, he voted for the impeachment of Fernando Collor on 29 September 1992, then joined the PPR and PPB, and was re-elected to the federal parliament in 1994 and 1998.

He died on 22 January 2024, aged 74, victim of kidney failure, a disease he had been suffering from for three years.

See also

• Monarchism in Brazil

Works

• A Solução é o Rei (1987)
• Dicionário das Famílias Brasileiras (2000–2001; with Carlos Eduardo Barata)