Alex Wagner is an American journalist.
She is the host of both Alex Wagner Tonight on MSNBC and Netflix’s The Mole reboot, as well as the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging.
Alex Wagner Parents: Meet Tin Swe Thant & Carl Wagner
Tin Swe Thant and Carl Wagner are the parents of Alex Wagner.
Alex’s mother Tin Swe Thant is an immigrant from Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma), who became a naturalized U.S. citizen before attending Swarthmore College.
Her father Carl Robert Wagner was a Democratic Party political consultant who co-chaired Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Born January 14, 1945, in Lansing, Iowa, a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River, Wagner’s father was a rural letter carrier.
Wagner graduated in 1967 from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, with a degree in political science and did postgraduate study in politics at the University of Iowa.
Following graduating, he worked in Madison, Wisconsin as an economics specialist in the office of Gov. Patrick Lucey before coming to Washington in the mid-1970s as a political operative for AFSCME.
In 2008, Wagner supported then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination. He directed get-out-the-vote efforts in local and state contests around the country.
Carl Wagner’s marriage to the former Swe Thant ended in divorce.
Carl Wagner died on June 23, 2017, at his home in Washington.