{{Short description|Argentine politician (born 1971)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Maurice Closs | image = Maurice-Closs.JPG | office = [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] | term_start = {{Start date|2017|12|10|df=yes}} | term_end = | constituency = [[Misiones Province|Misiones]] | term_start1 = {{Start date|2005|12|10|df=yes}} | term_end1 = {{End date|2007|12|09|df=yes}} | constituency1 = [[Misiones Province|Misiones]] | successor1 = [[Eduardo Torres (politician)|Eduardo Torres]] | office2 = [[Governor of Misiones]] | term_start2 = {{Start date|2007|12|10|df=yes}} | term_end2 = {{End date|2015|12|10|df=yes}} | vice_governor2 = {{Unbulleted indent list|[[Sandra Giménez]]|[[Hugo Passalacqua]]}} | predecessor2 = [[Carlos Rovira (politician)|Carlos Rovira]] | successor2 = [[Hugo Passalacqua]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|06|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Aristóbulo del Valle (Misiones)|Aristóbulo del Valle]], [[Misiones Province|Misiones]], Argentina | profession = [[Lawyer]] | party = [[Front for the Renewal of Concord]] | footnotes = }} '''Maurice Fabián 'Mauri' Closs''' (born 10 June 1971) is an [[Argentina|Argentine]] politician, formerly of the [[Radical Civic Union]] (UCR) but now leading the [[Front for the Renewal of Concord]], allied to the [[Front for Victory]] in support of President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]]. He is a [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] representing [[Misiones Province]], which he led as [[Governor of Misiones|governor]] from 2007 to 2015.<ref name="senate">{{Cite web|url=http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/senadores/biografia.php?id_sena=359|title=Senate profile|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611043411/http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/senadores/biografia.php?id_sena=359|archive-date=2007-06-11|df=mdy-all|access-date=2008-07-13}}</ref>
Born in [[Aristóbulo del Valle (Misiones)|Aristóbulo del Valle]], [[Misiones Province|Misiones]], Closs graduated as a lawyer from the [[National University of the Northeast]], and studied at postgraduate level at the [[National University of Misiones]]. He worked in the family business and studied further at [[California State University, Los Angeles]] in [[Los Angeles]] and at the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean]] in [[Chile]].<ref name="senate" />
Between 1996 and 2000, Closs headed the Radical Youth movement and in 2002 he was elected president of the Misiones national committee of the UCR.<ref name="senate" /> In 2003, Closs and most of his fellow Misiones Radicals joined the Front for the Renewal of Concord in support of the re-election of incumbent [[Justicialist Party]] governor [[Carlos Rovira (politician)|Carlos Rovira]].<ref name="senate" />
Following the election, Rovira appointed Closs as chief of cabinet, and in 2005 he was elected to the Senate for the Front, becoming the youngest senator in the country at age 35. He sat in support of then President [[Néstor Kirchner]].<ref name="senate" />
Closs was elected governor in 2007.
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{S-start}} {{s-bef | before = [[Carlos Rovira (politician)|Carlos Rovira]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Governor of Misiones Province|Governor of Misiones]] | years = 10 December 2007–10 December 2015 }} {{s-aft | after = [[Hugo Passalacqua]] }} {{S-end}}
== External links == * {{In lang|es}} [http://www.misiones.gov.ar/ Misiones Province] * {{In lang|es}} [http://www.clossgobernador.com.ar/ Official website]
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