1. 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.
43 Facts About Kay Hagan
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Kay Hagan ran for reelection in 2014 but lost to Republican Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, in a close race.
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Kay Hagan spent most of her childhood in Lakeland, Florida, and graduated from Lakeland Senior High School in 1971.
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Kay Hagan spent summers on her grandparents' farm in Chesterfield, South Carolina, where she helped string tobacco and harvest watermelons.
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Kay Hagan became a county campaign manager for Governor Jim Hunt's gubernatorial campaign.
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Kay Hagan was first elected to the North Carolina General Assembly as state Senator for the 32nd district in 1998.
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Kay Hagan defeated investment banker Jim Neal of Chapel Hill, podiatrist Howard Staley of Chatham County, Lexington truck driver Duskin Lassiter, and Lumberton attorney Marcus Williams in the May 2008 Democratic primary.
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Kay Hagan was recruited to the race only after more prominent North Carolina Democrats such as Governor Mike Easley, former Governor Jim Hunt and Congressman Brad Miller all declined to compete against Dole.
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Kay Hagan was helped by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's aggressive push for North Carolina's 15 electoral votes and by 527 groups lobbying on her behalf.
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Kay Hagan's victory was partially attributed to anger over the "Godless" ad.
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Kay Hagan's victory returned the seat that had once been held by Jesse Helms to the Democrats.
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The Fiscal Times reported that Kay Hagan benefitted from a presidential election, with its higher voter turnout, in 2008 and that without one in 2014 the race appeared to be a toss-up.
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Kay Hagan declined to attend ceremonies for President Barack Obama's January 2014 visit to North Carolina, deciding instead to remain in Washington for Senate votes.
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Pundits questioned whether Kay Hagan was attempting to distance herself from the President, whose popularity in North Carolina had waned significantly after he won narrowly the state in his 2008 presidential bid.
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Kay Hagan had been the target of numerous negative ads paid for by Americans for Prosperity, which had spent over $7 million on the race by the end of March 2014.
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In July 2014, Kay Hagan had the largest cash-on-hand advantage of any vulnerable Democratic senator.
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Kay Hagan was called on by national Democrats to launch another Senate bid.
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Kay Hagan was said to be the strongest potential challenger against incumbent senator Richard Burr.
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On June 24,2015, Kay Hagan announced on Facebook that she would not run for the Senate in 2016.
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On February 13,2009, Kay Hagan voted to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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In December 2010, Kay Hagan voted against a bill extending both the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits.
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On March 23,2013, Kay Hagan was one of only four Democratic Senators to vote against the Senate's first approved budget in four years.
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In May 2013, Kay Hagan voted in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, which requires online stores to collect state sales tax in the same fashion as brick-and-mortar stores.
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Kay Hagan voted not to reinstate the Feinstein ban on "assault weapons", nor to ban "large capacity ammunition feeding devices".
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In December 2009, Kay Hagan voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and she later voted for the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
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On September 27,2013, Kay Hagan voted to restore funding for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as part of an amendment to legislation funding government operations for 45 days, and which omitted House-passed language prioritizing debt payments if Congress fails to increase the nation's borrowing limits.
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The Washington Posts Dana Milbank argued at the time that Kay Hagan was destabilizing her own Senate political career due to her difficulty communicating the reasons for her support of Obamacare to her own constituents.
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In 2009, Kay Hagan voted for the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009, a successful $32.8 billion measure which funded increased health coverage for children while raising the cigarette tax by 62 cents a pack.
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Kay Hagan opposed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which was signed into law in 2009.
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On December 18,2010, Kay Hagan was one of only five Democrats to vote against the DREAM Act.
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In June 2013, Kay Hagan voted against an amendment to require the completion of 350 miles of fence described in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 before registered provisional immigrant status may be granted.
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Kay Hagan co-sponsored PROTECT IP Act, a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to the sale of infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the US In the wake of online protests, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tabled the bill in January 2012.
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Kay Hagan supported abortion rights for women and voted against a congressional plan to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Kay Hagan was endorsed by EMILY's List, an organization dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women to office.
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Kay Hagan opposed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks.
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On December 18,2010, Kay Hagan voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.
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Kay Hagan opposed North Carolina's Amendment 1, a measure that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman in North Carolina's Constitution.
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On March 27,2013, Kay Hagan announced her support of same-sex marriage.
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Kay Hagan's widower, Charles Tilden "Chip" Kay Hagan III, is a transaction lawyer.
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Kay Hagan had a 2012 net worth of approximately $24 million.
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The inflammation was due to Powassan virus, which Kay Hagan's husband thought she received from a tick while hiking in 2016.
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Kay Hagan died on October 28,2019, from complications of Powassan virus, at the age of 66.
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Kay Hagan's funeral was held on November 3,2019, at the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro.