Jayme Campos | |
Office: | Senator for Mato Grosso |
Term Start: | 1 February 2019 |
Term Start1: | 1 February 2007 |
Term End1: | 1 February 2015 |
Office2: | Mayor of Várzea Grande |
Term Start2: | 1 January 1997 |
Term End2: | 1 January 2005 |
Predecessor2: | Nereu Botelho de Campos |
Successor2: | Murilo Domingos |
Office3: | Governor of Mato Grosso |
Term Start3: | 15 March 1991 |
Term End3: | 1 January 1995 |
Predecessor3: | Edison de Oliveira |
Successor3: | Dante de Oliveira |
Birth Date: | 13 September 1951 |
Birth Place: | Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso, Brazil |
Party: | UNIÃO (2022–present) |
Jayme Veríssimo de Campos (born 13 September 1951) better known as Jayme Campos is a federal senator of Brazil representing his home state of Mato Grosso.[1] He was previously governor of Mato Grosso from 1991 to 1994 and also served as mayor of Várzea Grande from 1997 to 2004.[2]
Campos' father Júlio Campos was also a senator and governor of Mato Grosso as well as mayor of Várzea Grande. Campos is married to Lucimar Campos, who in 2015 was elected mayor of Várzea Grande.[3] Campos had four children, two daughters and two sons: Michelle Campos Soares, Jaime Veríssimo de Campos Júnior, Carlos Eduardo Sacre de Campos, and Gisele Sacre de Campos.[4] His second oldest child, Jaime Jr., died in a car accident in May 2004 while driving home from his sister's wedding.[5]
Campos was elected to the federal senate for the first time in the 2006 Brazilian general election, winning 61% of the votes. After being defeated in 2015, Campos was re-elected to the federal senate in the 2018 Brazilian general election, along with Selma Arruda from the state of Mato Grosso.[6]