Hager, John H

LC control no.	no2002092740
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hager, John H. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated place	Virginia
Birth date	1936-08-28
Death date	2020-08-23
Place of birth	Durham (N.C.)
Field of activity	Virginia--Politics and government Tobacco industry United States--Politics and government Civil defense People with disabilities--Education People with disabilities--Rehabilitation
Affiliation	Virginia. Office of the Lieutenant Governor Virginia. Office of Commonwealth Preparedness United States. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services American Tobacco Company Brown & Williamson
Profession or occupation	Politicians Public officers Executives Lobbyists
Found in	Secure Virginia Initiative progress report, 2002: caption (John H. Hager) Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 25, 2020 (in obituary dated Aug. 24, 2020: John Hager; John H. Hager, a tobacco company executive who entered Virginia politics as a business-friendly moderate and served as lieutenant governor from 1998 to 2002, died Aug. 23 at 83. He lost the 2001 GOP gubernatorial primary to state Attorney General Mark L. Earley. Mr. Hager went on to serve under Warner as Virginia's homeland security director after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mr. Hager's newly created Office of Commonwealth Preparedness was a Cabinet-level post. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Hager was an assistant U.S. secretary of education, overseeing the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. He briefly was chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia but was forced out in 2008. John Henry Hager was born in Durham, N.C., on Aug. 28, 1936. After a year of active-duty Army service, he joined American Tobacco Co. He remained with the firm, rising to senior vice president, before retiring after the company sold its tobacco operations in 1994 to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. Mr. Hager continued to defend tobacco interests as a consultant to Brown & Williamson and as a lobbyist for the firm. He co-chaired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North's failed senatorial campaign in 1994 before winning election as lieutenant governor on a ticket headed by state Attorney General James S. Gilmore III.)