Robert F Hagan was born on March 31,1949 and is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who held a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 58th District from 2007 to 2014.
18 Facts About Bob Hagan
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Bob Hagan represented the same seat from 1987 to 1997, and served in the Ohio Senate from 1997 to 2006.
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When incumbent Joseph Vukovich was appointed to a judiciary position in 1997, Bob Hagan was chosen to succeed him in the Ohio Senate.
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Bob Hagan was appointed to the State Senate on February 12,1997, to represent the 33rd district in northeastern Ohio, centered on the city of Youngstown.
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In 2005, Bob Hagan ran for mayor of Youngstown, hoping to replace outgoing mayor George McKelvey.
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Bob Hagan served on the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission.
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Bob Hagan won a final term in 2012 unopposed, and was term-limited in 2014.
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Bob Hagan cited Portman's vote against background checks as his motive for challenging the freshman senator.
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Bob Hagan has cited a considerable amount of secrecy and partisanship surrounding the legislation.
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Bob Hagan has called the bill simply a bust to unions.
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Bob Hagan has sought to fight gasoline prices through legislation to create the Ohio Gasoline Price Oversight Commission.
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On October 22,2012, Bob Hagan introduced a bill in the Ohio House that would prohibit any team playing in publicly financed stadiums or arenas from blacking out games.
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In 2010, Bob Hagan was assaulted at the Lemon Grove, a bar located in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Bob Hagan was punched in the face after a verbal altercation with a fellow customer, and was treated with several stitches at a local hospital after regaining consciousness.
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On January 20,2011 it was reported that Bob Hagan had referred to someone during an online debate on Facebook as a "buckwheat", a word that some consider to have racist connotations.
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Bob Hagan said "buckwheat" was a term he had been using "since he was a kid" and that it no longer carried racial connotation for him.
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On September 15,2022, Senator Rulli alleged that Bob Hagan had entered his family's grocery store, Rulli Brothers, and harassed customers on September 12.
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Bob Hagan denied these allegations, stating that the man in the security camera footage was not him and accused Rulli of "endangering [his] family" and "inciting violence" against him.