1. Eduardo Henrique Accioly Campos was a Brazilian congressman and governor.
14 Facts About Eduardo Campos
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Eduardo Campos became a federal congressman in Brazil and got Pernambuco federal money for a shipyard, railways and an oil refinery.
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Eduardo Campos served two terms as governor of his home state, Pernambuco.
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Eduardo Campos helped hospitals, secondary schools, wind power, farms, poor people and anti-crime data-mining.
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Eduardo Campos 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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Eduardo Campos studied Economics at the Federal University of Pernambuco.
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Eduardo Campos was married to Renata Campos and they had five children.
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Eduardo Campos entered politics while still in university, when he was elected as president of the Economics College Student Academic Center.
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In 1986, Eduardo 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.
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In 1994, Eduardo Campos was elected Federal Representative with one hundred and thirty three thousand votes.
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In 2002, being for the third time a member of the Federal Congress, Eduardo Campos was the articulator of Lula's government in the Social Welfare and Fiscal Reforms.
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Eduardo Campos achieved unanimously in Congress, the approval of the Technological Innovation Law, resulting in the regulatory framework for enterprises, universities and research institutions.
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Eduardo Campos ran for the government of the state of Pernambuco in 2006.
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Eduardo Campos was the Governor of the state of Pernambuco for seven years.