Rogério Rego

Rogério da Silva Rego (December 21, 1933, in Salvador, Bahia – October 1, 1982, in Itapetinga, Bahia) was a Brazilian lawyer, public servant and politician, formerly a federal deputy for Bahia.

Biography Born in the state of Bahia, Brazil, Rogério was the son of José Raimundo Fortes do Rego and Elisa da Silva Fortes do Rego. A Lawyer graduated in 1959 from the Federal University of Bahia, he had political connections with Juracy Magalhães, of whom he was a cabinet officer in his second stint as governor of Bahia between 1959 and 1963, in addition to occupying the positions of legal assistant at the state attorney general's office and the city hall of Salvador, now administered by Heitor Dias. He was subsequently director of the State Cooperative Department and attorney of the Institute of Retirement and Pensions of the Servants of the State of Bahia. and was a candidate for vice governor of Bahia in the Clériston Andrade slate in 1982, but both died during the election campaign in an air accident that killed 11 more people in Itapetinga on October 1, 1982.

Due to the unfortunate event, the state directorate of the PDS appointed João Durval Carneiro and Edvaldo Flores as new candidates for governor and vice-governor, respectively, and this slate won the election on November 15 of that year.