Jaques Wagner

{{Short description|Brazilian politician}}

{{BLP sources|date=June 2010}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jaques Wagner

| image = Foto oficial de Jaques Wagner.jpg

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| office = Senator for Bahia

| term_start = 1 February 2019

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| predecessor = Roberto Muniz{{Collapsed infobox section begin|Previous positions}}

| office1 = 50th Governor of Bahia

| term_start1 = 1 January 2007

| term_end1 = 31 December 2014

| vicegovernor1 = Edmundo Santos {{nowrap|(2007–2010)}}
Otto Alencar {{nowrap|(2011–2014)}}

| predecessor1 = Paulo Souto

| successor1 = Rui Costa

| office2 = Chief of Staff of the Presidency

| term_start2 = 2 October 2015

| term_end2 = 16 March 2016

| president2 = Dilma Rousseff

| predecessor2 = Aloizio Mercadante

| successor2 = Eliseu Padilha

| office3 = Minister of Defence

| term_start3 = 1 January 2015

| term_end3 = 2 October 2015

| president3 = Dilma Rousseff

| predecessor3 = Celso Amorim

| successor3 = Aldo Rebelo

| office4 = Minister of Institutional Affairs

| term_start4 = 20 July 2005

| term_end4 = 31 March 2006

| president4 = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

| predecessor4 = Aldo Rebelo

| successor4 = Tarso Genro

| office5 = Minister of Labour and Employment

| term_start5 = 1 January 2003

| term_end5 = 23 January 2004

| president5 = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

| predecessor5 = Paulo Jobim Filho

| successor5 = Ricardo Berzoini

| office6 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies

| term_start6 = 1 February 1991

| term_end6 = 1 January 2003

| constituency6 = Bahia{{Collapsed infobox section end}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|3|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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| party = PT (1980–present)

| spouse = {{Marriage|Fátima Mendonça|1990}}

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| alma_mater = Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (dropped out)

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Jaques Wagner ({{IPA|pt-BR|ˈʒaks ˈvaɡneʁ|lang}}; born 16 March 1951) is a Brazilian politician who was Governor of Bahia from 2007 to 2015[http://datafolha.folha.uol.com.br/po/ver_po.php?session=926 "Jaques Wagner (PT) lidera disputa pelo governo do estado"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223041829/http://datafolha.folha.uol.com.br/po/ver_po.php?session=926 |date=2009-12-23 }}. Datafolha. December 23, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-10-20. {{in lang|pt}} and Minister of Defence{{cite news|title=Jewish governor named Brazil's minister of defense|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-governor-named-brazils-minister-of-defense/|access-date=31 December 2014|work=The Times of Israel|date=31 December 2014}} 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.{{cite web|title=Governador - Governo do Estado da Bahia |url=http://www.governador.ba.gov.br/ |website=Governador da Bahia |access-date=31 December 2014 |language=pt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227084250/http://www.governador.ba.gov.br/ |archive-date=27 December 2014 }}{{cite news|title=Jacques Wagner named Brazilian minister of defense|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.633957|access-date=31 December 2014|agency=Haaretz|work=Haaretz|date=27 December 2014}}

Since 2019, he serves as a Senator for the state of Bahia.{{cite web|url=https://www25.senado.leg.br/web/senadores/senador/-/perfil/581|title=Jaques Wagner|publisher=Federal Senate|access-date=February 6, 2019}}