Jaques Wagner
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Senator for Bahia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 1 February 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Roberto Muniz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 16 March 1951||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | PT (1980–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fátima Mendonça (m. 1990) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (dropped out) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jaques Wagner (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʒaks ˈvaɡneʁ]; born 16 March 1951) is a Brazilian politician who was Governor of Bahia from 2007 to 2015 and Minister of Defence in 2015.
Wagner, whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. In his youth, he was a member of the Labor Zionist youth organization Habonim Dror. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT), as well as the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), a union which has organized more than seven million members. He won reelection in the 2010 Bahia gubernatorial election.
Since 2019, he serves as a Senator for the state of Bahia.
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Governors of Bahia
- Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians
- Jewish Brazilian politicians
- Jewish socialists
- Government ministers of Brazil
- Brazilian people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Bahia
- Defence ministers of Brazil
- Chiefs of Staff of Brazil
- 20th-century Brazilian Jews
- 21st-century Brazilian Jews
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