Jaques Wagner

Jaques Wagner
Senator for Bahia
Assumed office
1 February 2019
Preceded byRoberto Muniz
Previous positions
50th Governor of Bahia
In office
1 January 2007 – 31 December 2014
Vice GovernorEdmundo Santos (2007–2010)
Otto Alencar (2011–2014)
Preceded byPaulo Souto
Succeeded byRui Costa
Chief of Staff of the Presidency
In office
2 October 2015 – 16 March 2016
PresidentDilma Rousseff
Preceded byAloizio Mercadante
Succeeded byEliseu Padilha
Minister of Defence
In office
1 January 2015 – 2 October 2015
PresidentDilma Rousseff
Preceded byCelso Amorim
Succeeded byAldo Rebelo
Minister of Institutional Affairs
In office
20 July 2005 – 31 March 2006
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byAldo Rebelo
Succeeded byTarso Genro
Minister of Labour and Employment
In office
1 January 2003 – 23 January 2004
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byPaulo Jobim Filho
Succeeded byRicardo Berzoini
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 February 1991 – 1 January 2003
ConstituencyBahia
Personal details
Born (1951-03-16) 16 March 1951 (age 72)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Political partyPT (1980–present)
Spouse
Fátima Mendonça
(m. 1990)
Alma materPontifical 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.


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