Eduardo Campos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian economist and politician
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Place of Birth: Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
About Eduardo Campos
- 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, three days after his 49th birthday, when his plane crashed in poor weather in the city of Santos.
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