Jaques Wagner

In office
1 January 2007 – 1 January 2015

Lieutenant

Edmundo Santos
Otto Alencar

Preceded by

Paulo Souto

Succeeded by

Rui Costa

Other positions
Minister of Defence
In office 1 January 2015 – 2 October 2015
President	Dilma Rousseff
Preceded by	Celso Amorim
Succeeded by	Aldo Rebelo
Chief Minister of the Department of Institutional Relations
In office 20 July 2005 – 31 March 2006
President	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded by	Office established
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 February 1999
Constituency	Bahia

Personal details

Born

16 March 1951 (age 66)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nationality

Political party

Spouse(s)

Fátima Mendonça

Occupation

Religion

Nickname(s)

Passivo (Passive)

Jaques Wagner (born March 16, 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.