People from Shelby, North Carolina - Earl Scruggs, Kay Hagan, Thomas Dixon, JR., Don Gibson, David Thompson, Brandon Spikes, Bobby Bell (Paperback)

Chapters: Earl Scruggs, Kay Hagan, Thomas Dixon, Jr., Don Gibson, David Thompson, Brandon Spikes, Bobby Bell, Oliver Max Gardner, Alvin Gentry, Creighton Lovelace, Cliff Washburn, A. C. Dixon, Edwin Y. Webb, Tom Mcmurray, Billy Standridge, Doug Limerick, Trey Hill, Kenny Allen, Johnny Best, Keyon Whiteside, Mel Phillips, Elaine Radford, Pamela Duncan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 98. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kay Ruthven Hagan (pronounced; born May 26, 1953) is the junior United States Senator from North Carolina and a member of the Democratic Party. Before her election, she was a five-term member of the North Carolina Senate. Hagan defeated first-term Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole in the 2008 United States Senate election. She is the second female senator from the state of North Carolina and the first female Democrat to represent the state in the Senate. She is also the first woman to defeat a female incumbent in a Senate election, and her election makes North Carolina the first state to have elected female senators from more than one political party. Hagan was born in Shelby, North Carolina, to Joe, a tire salesman, and Jeanette (nee Chiles) Ruthven, a homemaker. Both her father and her older brother served in the Navy. She spent most of her childhood in Lakeland, Florida, of which her father later became mayor. She also spent summers on her grandparents' farm in Chesterfield, South Carolina, where she helped string tobacco and harvest watermelons. As a child, Hagan engaged in her earliest political activity: placing bumper stickers on cars for her uncle, Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles. 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 attended Florida S...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=451697