Charles T. Hagel

(1946- ) born at North Platte, lived at Columbus and Omaha. Businessman, politician, served as deputy administrator of U.S. Veterans Administration, and head of United Service Organization, co-founded in 1985 Vanguard Cellular Systems, which became the nation’s second-largest independent cell phone company, U.S. Senator since 1997; received 2001 Horatio Alger Award and 2003 Cordell Hull Award. Consult Lincoln Journal Star, December 29, 1996, pp. A-1, A-4 and Congressional Quarterly’s Politics in America 2002, 107th Congress (2001) 597-598 and Omaha World Herald, December 7, 2000, p. 13 and October 17, 2002, pp. B-1, B-2 and May 10, 2003, p. A-5 and Current Biography (2004) 210-213.

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