José Alencar
José Alencar Gomes da Silva (born 17 October 1931 in Muriaé, Minas Gerais, † March 29, 2011 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian politician and entrepreneur.
Life
He came from a small business family and was used as the eleventh child according to his own biography early to work. In 1950 he founded his first company, a small shop. More followed over time. He was doing extremely successful and eventually led, together with his son Christiano Coteminas the Group, the largest with more than 15,000 employees textile company in Brazil, with headquarters in the city of Montes Claros in Minas Gerais. In the conduct of its business and in dealing with unions him a hard hand was said.
His political career began in 1994 with an unsuccessful bid for governor in his home state. In 1998 he was elected to the Brazilian Senate. There he worked on the committees for Economic Affairs and Social Affairs. In the 2002 presidential election, he supported as a member of the conservative Partido Liberal ( PL " Liberal Party "), the more the left is arranged Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT " Workers Party " ), and was by his election victory on 1 January 2003 Vice-President of Brazil. From 2004 to 2006 he also held the post of defense minister. In 2006 he joined, as well as many of his party colleagues, the taking place this year, the presidential election, the newly founded party Partido Republicano Brasileiro ( PRB ) above. This party will close ties to the " Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus ", the most important evangelical sect Brazil rumored. It runs a private television station, TV Record, the second most important TV station in the country. In October 2006, Lula da Silva was re-elected with him and José Alencar again Vice- President of Brazil. On 1 January 2011 he resigned from the end of his second term from the post of vice-president, and was succeeded by Michel Temeraire.
José Alencar died on 29 March 2011 from cancer. The disease was first diagnosed in 1997 with him during his time as Vice President Alencar had been treated several times.