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
Official portrait, 2009
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
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, she previou
Kay Hagan
…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…
Dole in the Duke University yearbook, 1958
Elizabeth Dole with friend and mentor Virginia Knauer
The official Department of Labor portrait of Elizabeth Dole