Jorge Obeid
| Jorge Obeid | |
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National Deputy for Santa Fe Province |
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In office 10 December 1999 - 10 December 2003 10 December 2007 - 10 December 2011 10 December 2013 - 28 January 2014 |
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| Governor of Santa Fe | |
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In office 10 December 1995 - 9 December 1999 10 December 2003 - 10 December 2007 |
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| Lieutenant | Gualberto Venecia (1995-1999) María Eugenia Bielsa (2003-2007) |
| Preceded by |
Carlos Reutemann (1995) Carlos Reutemann (2003) |
| Succeeded by |
Carlos Reutemann (1999) Hermes Binner (2007) |
| Mayor of Santa Fe | |
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In office 1989 - 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Carlos Martínez |
| Succeeded by | Horacio Rosatti |
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24 November 1947 Diamante, Entre Ríos |
| Died | 28 January 2014 (aged 66) Santa Fe, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party/Front for Victory |
| Spouse(s) | Elba Kemer |
| Alma mater | National University of the Littoral |
| Profession | Chemical engineer |
Jorge Alberto Obeid (24 November 1947 – 28 January 2014) was an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and former governor of Santa Fe Province.
Obeid was born in Diamante, Entre Ríos, to Edi D'Acierno de Obeid and Juan Obeid. He enrolled at the National University of the Littoral, in Santa Fe, and graduated with a degree in chemical engineering. He taught there from 1972 to 1976, and became a Peronist Youth activist at the time. This forced him to leave the country following the March 1976 coup, and returning from exile in Peru in 1977 to visit family in Diamante he was detained. Following the return of democracy in 1983, Obeid worked as a chemist in a polyurethane plant. He remained active in Peronist politics, however, and in 1987 was elected to the Santa Fe City Council. He became President of the Council in 1989, and when Mayor Carlos Aurelio Martínez resigned later that year, he succeeded him as mayor. He married Elba Inés Kemer, and they had five children.
Obeid was elected mayor in his own right in 1991, and later served as President of Argentine Federation of Cities (1992-93) and as representative for Santa Fe Province in the 1994 Constitutional Convention. He was elected governor of the province for the first time in 1995, winning an election that was fraught with problems, including a breakdown in the computer system counting the ballots that forced a recount to be done by hand. Obeid was declared the winner after 37 days, subsequent to charges of fraud and manipulation. He was backed by outgoing governor Carlos Reutemann and Buenos Aires Province Governor Eduardo Duhalde, narrowly defeating Alliance candidate Horacio Usandizaga and an alternative Peronist candidate backed by President Carlos Menem, Rosario Mayor Héctor Cavallero. He served until 1999, when former Governor Reutemann was returned by voters to a second four-year term.
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