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Celerity

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Mon Oct 28, 2019, 01:11 PM Oct 2019

Former senator Kay Hagan has died at age 66. She served one term representing North Carolina.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/10/28/former-senator-kay-hagan-has-died-at-age-66-she-served-one-term-representing-north-carolina/

The Democrat lost to Thom Tillis in the GOP wave of 2014 as the Republicans seized the Senate majority.

Hagan had beaten GOP incumbent Elizabeth Dole in 2008.

She had contracted a brain inflammation from a tick-borne virus.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

RIP
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Former senator Kay Hagan has died at age 66. She served one term representing North Carolina. (Original Post) Celerity Oct 2019 OP
... spanone Oct 2019 #1
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