1. James Lee Hagedorn was an American politician from Minnesota.
23 Facts About Jim Hagedorn
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Jim Hagedorn lost to future Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz in 2014 and 2016.
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Jim Hagedorn was raised on his family's farm near Truman, Minnesota, and in McLean, Virginia, near Washington, DC, while his father served in Congress from 1975 to 1983.
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Jim Hagedorn graduated from George Mason University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government and political science in 1993.
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Jim Hagedorn served as a legislative aide to US Representative Arlan Stangeland from 1984 to 1991.
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Jim Hagedorn then worked in the United States Department of the Treasury as director for legislative and public affairs for the Financial Management Service from 1991 to 1998 and as congressional affairs officer for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing until 2009.
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From 2002 to 2008, Jim Hagedorn authored a now-deleted blog, Mr Conservative.
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Jim Hagedorn lost the Republican nomination for Minnesota's 1st congressional district in the 2010 election.
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Jim Hagedorn again won the Republican nomination, and again lost to Walz in a closer race.
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Jim Hagedorn received the Republican nomination, despite the NRA Political Victory Fund endorsing another candidate, state Senator Carla Nelson, who received funds from Representative Elise Stefanik, Richard Uihlein and Paul Singer.
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Jim Hagedorn described himself as the most conservative candidate, who was loyal to Donald Trump.
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In 2020, LegiStorm released an analysis of Jim Hagedorn's office spending, finding that the office had spent more than one fifth of its $1.4 million annual office budget on publicly funded constituent mail.
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Some expenses for Jim Hagedorn's mailings went to a firm partially owned by a part-time Jim Hagedorn staffer.
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Jim Hagedorn initiated an internal review of his office's spending and reported the findings to the House Ethics Committee, which declined to pursue the matter.
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In December 2020, Hagedorn was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.
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On January 7,2021, Jim Hagedorn objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential election results in Congress based on false claims of voter fraud.
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In December 2021, Business Insider reported that Jim Hagedorn had violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, a federal transparency and conflict-of-interest law, by failing to properly disclose a sale of stock in Exact Sciences Corp.
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Jim Hagedorn was married to Jennifer Carnahan, who chaired the Republican Party of Minnesota until 2021.
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Jim Hagedorn was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in 2019 and received immunotherapy.
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In July 2021, Jim Hagedorn announced that his cancer had returned.
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In January 2022, Jim Hagedorn was admitted to the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, after testing positive for COVID-19; he had previously been vaccinated against the disease.
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Jim Hagedorn died on February 17,2022, at the age of 59.
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Jim Hagedorn was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Blue Earth.