Daytona politician not afraid to let his hair down
Photos for Headline Surfer® / Volusia County Councilman Joshua Wagner is shown in a vintage high school photo with his future wife, Jennifer Hall Wagner, and with their two small children at his swearing-in ceremony the beginning of last year to begin his second four-year term.DAYTONA BEACH -- Joshua Wagner is constantly on the go, multi-tasking as lawyer, politician and most important of all, as a family man.
And he always tries to accommodate the media, like he did Friday on his way home with a quick call to answer a few questions from Headline Surfer® while en route to meet his wife.
After all, this was their fifth anniversary.
In the courtroom, he's all business as a lawyer and former prosecutor, though he's known to crack a smile or say something whimsical, either to elicit emotion or to bring a sense of calm to a situation.
It's the same MO when he's on the dais in the County Council chambers where the 36-year-old Wagner is midway through his second four-year term representing greater Daytona Beach.
When it comes to social media, Wagner's filters aren't as strong as witnessed by the vintage photo he posed on Facebook, where he was shockingly different from his conservative mid-30s look of short brown hair with slight facial hair.
The Wagner of yesteryear was a taller-looking skinny kid, perhaps the height a mirage emphasized by long flowing straight blond hair.
Really, really long hair as in past his shoulders.
Joshua Wagner is shown here in this 2011 image he posted on his Facebook page in a wet suit with towel covering his head.For some strange reason, Wagner likes the voyeuristic draw his Facebook photos attract, otherwise why would he post them?
Headline Surfer® didn't see the Goldilocks photo until after the brief conversation with Wagner to ask him about it.
It certainly was an eye opener.
In any event, it shows he doesn't take himself too seriously all the time and that he does confidence, if not a sense of self deprecation for the amusement of the rest of us who may often take like too seriously sometimes.
Wagner has used Facebook, though to communicate and share his thoughts on issues of a serious nature, too.
Like the harrowing experience he and his family endorsed while on a surfing vacation in Nicaragua last month.
He posted this comment March 30, that led to an interview on WESH Channel 2 News: Back home from Nicaragua. Not as big as I was hoping but still fun everyday...good times with great friends. To the Nicaraguan police officer that robbed us at gun point with a AK 47 on the way to the airport, enjoy your bad Karma. However, $90 to not get shot in the face is a pretty good deal.
County Councilman Joshua Wagner and his elegant wife, Jennefifer Hall Wagner, are shown in this Oct. 13, 2013, snapshot at Bethune Cookmsan University in Daytona Beach for the inaugural ceremony of Edison Jackson as president of the black college.On his wife, Jennifer Hall Wagner's page, the photo images are classy to say the least -- like one of the married couple at the inauguration of Edison Jackson as the sixth president of Bethune-Cookman University last October.
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County Councilman Joshua Wagner is an avid surfer at the world's Most Famous Beach, something that runs deep in his family roots here. Wagner's great uncle, Judge James Nelson, passed away in January at the age of 96. He, too, was a surfer as shown in this vintage photo of him, near the Main Street Pier (third from the left). He was part of the original pioneers of surfing on the East Coast. He was an officer in World War II and a local judge for 40 years.