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Richard C. Wager, a native of Hyde Park, NY, is a Republican candidate for New York's 20th Congressional District.
He holds a law degree and a MBA from Fordham University and served in the administrations of New York City mayors Rudolph W. Giuliani and Michael R. Bloomberg, where he specialized in economic development and restructuring government systems to make them more accessible to the public. Mr. Wager most recently supervised a widely-heralded $100 million technology upgrade for the City of New York that simplified the way citizens interact with government and pay fees.
Mr. Wager has had a life-long interest in public service. After graduating from Providence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, dedicating almost three years of his life to the cause of low-income housing in rural Alabama. He has remained devoted to the mission of affordable home ownership ever since and serves as a board member and officer of Bethel-Ensley Action Task, Inc., in Birmingham, Al.
Mr. Wager, 36, is married to Margaret Johnson Wager, 28, an attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. They share a home in the Village of Millbrook in Dutchess County. Margaret is a member of the Young Professionals committee of the Bachmann-Strauss Foundation, a not-for-profit which funds medical research of Parkinson's disease and dystonia.
Mr. Wager is the son of Richard K. Wager, the former publisher of the Poughkeepsie Journal and Vice President of Gannett Northeast Group. His mother, Ellen, breeds nationally-recognized champion boxer dogs. Ellen and Dick Wager have been married for 42 years.
Margaret's father, Thomas S. Johnson, a former Chairman and CEO of Greenpoint Bank, is a board member of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, serving on behalf of the family's second child, Scott M. Johnson, 26, who lost his life in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Mr. Wager and his three sisters , Kathy, Tricia, and Sarah, all attended Hyde Park schools. At Providence College, Mr. Wager played Division I tennis. He ran the 2006 New York City Marathon, raising money for Parkinson's disease in the process.
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