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Edmilson Soares

Brazilian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ59245602 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edmilson de Araújo Soares (13 September 1952 – 21 December 2025) was a Brazilian politician. A member of multiple political parties, he served in the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba from 2011 to 2023.

Soares died in João Pessoa on 21 December 2025, at the age of 73.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Edmilson Soares” as brazilian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Edmilson, Soares and Brazilian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 2025, 2011, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-09-13. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Edmilson, Soares and Brazilian providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Edmilson Soares”, the useful work is to connect “brazilian politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q59245602. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952, 2025, 2011 and 2023.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Edmilson Soares” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.