Alternative History
José Alencar
President José Alencar
34th President of Brazil
In office
March 15, 2007 – March 15, 2015
Vice PresidentLula
Preceded byFernando Henrique Cardoso
Succeeded byAécio Neves
Governor of Minas Gerais
In office
January 1, 1995 – January 1, 2003
Preceded byNewton Cardoso
Succeeded byAécio Neves
Senator of Minas Gerais
In office
January 1, 1990 – March 22, 1994
President of A Queimadeira
In office
1950–1965s
Personal details
Born Octuber 17, 1931
Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Died March 2, 2016 (84 aged)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Political party MDB (1989 - 1997)

PT logoPT (1998 - d.2016)

Spouse(s) Mariza Gomes (1957 - d.2016)
Children 3


José Alencar (Octuber 17, 1931 - March 2, 2016) was a Brazilian businessman and politician. He was the 34th president of Brazil, from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2015. He became the first president of the Workers' Party and the first of the party to be re-elected.

He founded his first company at the age of 18, a store called Queimadeira. In 1967, he founded the Companhia de Telas Norte de Minas (Coteminas), a textile company that had great success.

He was a senator for the state of Minas Gerais from 1990 to 1994. In 1994 he ran for governor of the state, where he was elected with 51% of the votes. In 1998, he joined the workers' party (PT), where he was re-elected governor in the same year. In 2005, he became Lula's main partner and the party, 1 year later he was a candidate to compete in Brazil's 2006 elections against Vice President Marco Maciel, won by a narrow margin, becoming the country's president.In 2010 he disputed the election for election as president, where he won for governor Aécio Neves in the second round, with 57 million votes, being at the time the most voted in the elections.

In his 8 years as president, he was marked by the participation of the Namibian War and the departure from the Iran War in 2011. The government was marked by the economic boom and the appreciation of the real in 2008, due to the success of the recovery in the 2006 crisis.