Eduardo Campos

Brazilian economist and politician who served two consecutive terms as 55th governor of his home state, Pernambuco, from 1 January 2007 to 4 April 2014. When Campos was re-elected in 2010, he was the most well voted governor in Brazil, receiving more than 80% of the valid votes in the first round, defeating Senator Jarbas Vasconcelos. 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. As governor, 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 at 9:50 AM in poor weather in the city of Santos. Link to Wikipedia biography