Eduardo Campos

Eduardo Campos
Eduardo Campos in March 2013
Governor of Pernambuco
In office 1 January 2007 – 4 April 2014
Vice Governor	João Lyra Neto
Preceded by	Mendonça Filho
Succeeded by	João Lyra Neto
Minister of Science and Technology
In office 23 January 2004 – 18 July 2005
President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by	Roberto Amaral
Succeeded by	Sérgio Machado Rezende
Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Pernambuco
In office 1 January 1995 – 23 January 2004
In office 18 July 2005 – 1 January 2007
Constituency	Proportional representation
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco
In office 1 January 1991 – 1 January 1995
Constituency	Proportional representation
Personal details
Born	(1965-08-10)10 August 1965 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Died	13 August 2014(2014-08-13) (aged 49) Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Political party	Socialist Party
Children	5, including João
Relatives	Miguel Arraes (grandfather)
Alma mater	Federal University of Pernambuco

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.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}