Jaques Wagner

Jaques Wagner
Jaques Wagner
Senator for Bahia
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 February 2019
Preceded by	Roberto Muniz
Vice Governor	In office; 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2014
Previous positions
50th Governor of Bahia
	In office; 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2014
Vice Governor	Edmundo Santos (2007–2010); Otto Alencar (2011–2014)
Preceded by	Paulo Souto
Succeeded by	Rui Costa
Chief of Staff of the Presidency
	In office; 2 October 2015 – 16 March 2016
President	Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by	Aloizio Mercadante
Succeeded by	Eliseu Padilha
Minister of Defence
	In office; 1 January 2015 – 2 October 2015
President	Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by	Celso Amorim
Succeeded by	Aldo Rebelo
Minister of Institutional Affairs
	In office; 20 July 2005 – 31 March 2006
President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by	Aldo Rebelo
Succeeded by	Tarso Genro
Minister of Labour and Employment
	In office; 1 January 2003 – 23 January 2004
President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by	Paulo Jobim Filho
Succeeded by	Ricardo Berzoini
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 1 February 1991 – 1 January 2003
Constituency	Bahia
Personal details
Born	16 March 1951 (age 75); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Party	PT (1980–present)
Spouse	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^[1] and Minister of Defence^[2] in 2015.

Vice GovernorEdmundo Santos (2007–2010)
Otto Alencar (2011–2014)

Preceded byPaulo Souto

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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.^[3]^[4]

Since 2019, he serves as a Senator for the state of Bahia.^[5]

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