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Janet Kay Hagan (née Ruthven; born May 26, 1953) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from North Carolina from 2009 to 2015. Previously she served in the North Carolina Senate from 1999 to 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party. When Hagan defeated Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole in the 2008 United States Senate election, she became the first woman to defeat an incumbent woman in a Senate election. Hagan ran for re-election in 2014 in what was considered one of the toughest reelection bids in the country, facing Republican Thom Tillis. Hagan was defeated by Tillis on November 4, 2014. ==Early life and education== Hagan was born Janet Kay Ruthven〔(Kay Hagan genealogy ), ancestry.com; accessed November 9, 2015.〕 in Shelby, North Carolina, the daughter of Jeanette (née Chiles), a homemaker (and sister of Lawton Chiles, future Governor of Florida), and Josie Perry "Joe" Ruthven, a tire salesman. Both Hagan's father and her older brother served in the U.S. Navy. She spent most of her childhood in Lakeland, Florida. Leaving the tire business, her father branched out into real estate development, primarily focused on industrial warehouses and warehouse-centered business parks in the Lakeland and Polk County, Florida area. With business success came political engagement, in this case with the Democratic Party, with her father later becoming mayor of Lakeland.〔http://www.ruthvens.com/about-us/〕 To this day, the multigenerational Ruthven family remains one of the wealthiest and most politically influential families in Lakeland and Southwest Central Florida. Hagan also spent summers on her grandparents' farm in Chesterfield, South Carolina, where she helped string tobacco and harvest watermelons.〔 Her uncle is the late Lakeland native and U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.), who later became Florida Governor following his service in the U.S. Senate. In the 1970s, she was an intern at the Capitol, operating an elevator that carried senators, including her uncle, to and from the Chamber.〔 She earned a B.A. degree from Florida State University in 1975 and a J.D. degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law in 1978, later pursuing a career as both an attorney and banker. While a student at Florida State, Hagan became a member of the Chi Omega sorority, though she later resigned her membership. Prior to beginning her political career, Hagan worked in the financial industry. During this time she became a vice president of North Carolina's largest bank, NCNB (North Carolina National Bank), which is now a part of Bank of America.〔 Hagan became a county campaign manager for Governor Jim Hunt's gubernatorial campaign.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kay Hagan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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