Kay Hagan

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Kay Hagan (2009)

Kay Hagan (born May 26, 1953 in Shelby , North Carolina , † October 28, 2019 in Greensboro , North Carolina) was an American politician with the Democratic Party . The lawyer represented the state of North Carolina in the United States Senate from 2009 to 2015 . She had previously served in the North Carolina Senate from 1999 .

Family, education and work

Hagan was the niece of Lawton Chiles , the former governor of Florida . Her mother was the housewife Jeannette Chiles Ruthven, her father Joe P. Ruthven was from South Carolina . The family moved from North Carolina to Lakeland , Florida during Hagan's childhood , where she grew up and her father ran an auto tire shop, sold real estate, and became mayor. During the summer she helped out on her grandparents' farm in Chesterfield, South Carolina . She graduated from Florida State University , graduating in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in American Studies . She then studied law at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and graduated in 1978 with a Juris Doctor . In the 1970s she worked in the election campaigns of her uncle, who was then a US Senator for Florida, and did a six-month internship with him in his Washington office.

After completing his training, Hagan began working in the Trust division of North Carolina National Bank , which later became part of Bank of America , and rose to the position of Vice President.

At law school, she met her future husband, Charles T. "Chip" Hagan III, a future attorney, with whom she moved to his hometown of Greensboro , North Carolina. They had three children. Hagan died in October 2019 at the age of 66 of encephalitis caused by the Powassan virus .

Political career

Hagan served as the county manager of Jim Hunt's successful election campaigns for the North Carolina governorate in 1992 and 1996 . Hunt and State Senator Marc Basnight promoted Hagan's entry into politics. With their support, she first ran for a political mandate in 1998 when she ran for the 32nd constituency in the North Carolina Senate . She prevailed with 52 to 48 percent against the Republican mandate holder John Blust . She was a member of the upper house of the North Carolina General Assembly from 1999 for a subdistrict of Greensboros; later she represented the geographically similar 27th constituency of the State Senate after redesigning the constituencies. With Basnight's support, Hagan became co-chair of the budget committee, among other things.

On October 30, 2007, she announced that she would run for a seat in the United States Senate in 2008. Republican mandate holder Elizabeth Dole was known nationwide and well connected, which is why most of the potential Democratic candidates turned down. Hagan only accepted her candidacy at the insistence of Hunt and Chuck Schumers and won the party primary against four competitors with 60 percent of the vote. In the election on November 4, 2008 , she prevailed against Dole in the structurally rather conservative state with 52.7 to 44.2 percent. She had set her solidarity with the state against Dole's long absence and profited from the simultaneous presidential election in which Barack Obama also won the majority of North Carolina's voters, thanks in particular to a high turnout of African Americans . Hagan served on the panel from January 3, 2009 and was a member of the Armed Forces , Banking and Construction , Small Business, and Health and Social Affairs Committees . From 2013 she was chairman of two sub-committees. At the end of the six-year mandate, she lost the seat in the Senate election in November 2014 to the Republican candidate Thom Tillis . She left the Senate on January 3, 2015. In spring 2015 she was a Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School . She then worked as a political advisor for a Washington lobby company.

Hagan was considered a possible candidate for the 2016 Senate election , in which she would have run against the Republican incumbent Richard Burr , but ruled out a candidacy in June 2015.

Positions

Hagan was considered politically moderate. When she moved into the US Senate during the financial crisis in 2007 , she sought non-partisan cooperation in order to combat the subsequent global economic crisis. In the interests of the banking industry in North Carolina, she participated in the regulatory measures after the financial crisis and implemented changes to the Dodd-Frank Act . She also obtained measures for military bases and farms that play an important role in North Carolina. Among other things, it deviated from the party line in its support for the free possession of weapons and its rejection of cuts in the armaments budget. At the same time, she campaigned for the balance of the state budget. She supported the comprehensive Obamacare health care reform in 2010.

Web links

Commons : Kay Hagan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe P. Ruthven. In: Ruthvens.com.
  2. ↑ Jim Morrill, Brian Murphy: Former US Senator Kay Hagan dead at 66. In: The Charlotte Observer , October 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ General Election 1998: NC State Senate 32. In: Our Campaigns.
  4. ↑ a b c d Hagan, Kay. In: House of Representatives , History, Art & Archives.
  5. ^ Veit Medick : Democrats with a clear majority. In: Die Tageszeitung , November 5, 2008.
  6. ↑ Kay R. Hagan. In: Harvard Kennedy School
  7. ↑ General Election 2014: NC US Senate. In: Our Campaigns.
  8. ↑ Kay Hagan Won't Challenge Richard Burr in 2016. In: Roll Call , June 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hagan, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Shelby , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2019
Place of death Greensboro , North Carolina