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Jaques Wagner

Senator for Bahia

Incumbent

Assumed office
1 February 2019

Preceded by

Roberto Muniz

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 73)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Political 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 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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