Kay Hagan

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American politician (1953-2019)

United States PoliticiansLived 1953 to 2019 · aged 66

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Hagan at a Barack Obama rally in 2008

Kay Hagan, Susan Fisher Sterling, director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Heather Podesta at a 2009 party in Washington, D.C.

Hagan (center) with her husband (right) and lobbyist Tony Podesta in 2009

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MotherJeanette Chiles

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About this person

Janet Kay Hagan was an American lawyer, banking executive, and politician who served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the North Carolina Senate from 1999 to 2009. By defeating Republican Elizabeth Dole in the 2008 election, she became the first woman to defeat an incumbent woman in a U.S. Senate election. She ran for re-election in 2014 and lost to Republican Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, in a close race. As of 2025, she is the last Democrat to represent North Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

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