Eduardo Campos
| Eduardo Campos | |
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In Rio de Janeiro, 2006
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| Governor of Pernambuco | |
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In office 1 January 2007 – 4 April 2014 |
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| Vice Governor | João Lyra Neto |
| Preceded by | Mendonça Filho |
| Succeeded by | João Lyra Neto |
| Minister of Science and Technology | |
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In office 23 January 2004 – 18 July 2005 |
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| President | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
| Preceded by | Roberto Amaral |
| Succeeded by | Sérgio Machado Rezende |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Pernambuco |
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In office 1 January 1995 – 23 January 2004 |
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In office 18 July 2005 – 1 January 2007 |
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| Constituency | Proportional representation |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco |
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In office 1 January 1991 – 1 January 1995 |
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| Constituency | Proportional representation |
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10 August 1965 Recife, Brazil |
| Died | 13 August 2014 (aged 49) Santos, Brazil |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Pernambuco |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos (10 August 1965 – 13 August 2014) was a Brazilian congressman and governor. Born and raised in Recife, in the Northeast Brazil, he graduated in Economics from the Recife's Federal University of Pernambuco. Campos' maternal grandfather, the governor of the Brazilian state, Pernambuco, made him his Financial Secretary. Campos became a federal congressman in Brazil and got Pernambuco federal money for a shipyard, railways and an oil refinery. Later, as Brazil's Minister for Science and Technology, he supported stem-cell research. He served two terms as governor of his home state, Pernambuco. He helped hospitals, secondary schools, wind power, farms, poor people and anti-crime data-mining. In his 2014 campaign for president of Brazil he criticized the incumbent and her Workers' Party and positioned himself as the business-friendly leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party. For outdoor rallies and local radio interviews, he criss-crossed the country by rented jet. He died on 13 August 2014, when his plane crashed in poor weather in the city of Santos.
Eduardo Campos studied Economics at the Federal University of Pernambuco. He was married to Renata Campos and they had five children (Maria Eduarda, João Henrique, Pedro Henrique, José Henrique and Miguel). Campos was the grandson of Miguel Arraes. former Governor of Pernambuco and former Federal Deputy, and son of the Minister of the Court of Accounts of the Union and former Federal Deputy Ana Arraes with Maximiliano Campos. Campos was a practising Roman Catholic until his death.
Campos entered politics while still in university, when he was elected as president of the Economics College Student Academic Center. In 1986, Campos turned down an opportunity to take a master's degree in the United States of America in order to participate in the campaign which elected his grandfather Miguel Arraes as governor of Pernambuco.
With Arraes' election, in 1987, Campos took up the position of Chief of Staff. In this period he was responsible for the creation of the first Science and Technology Secretariat of the Northeast – Secretaria de Ciência e Tecnologia do Nordeste – and the Science and Technology Support Foundation-Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco (Facepe).
Campos joined the Brazilian Socialist Party – Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB), in 1990. In the same year, he was elected state representative and garnered the Leão do Norte award granted by the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco to its most active members.
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