Frank L. Hagaman

Frank Leslie Hagaman ( born June 1, 1894 in Bushnell, Illinois, † June 23, 1966 in Kansas City, Kansas ) was an American politician and from 1950 to 1951 the 31 Governor of the State of Kansas.

Early years

Early on, Frank Hagaman with his family to Kansas. There he attended Rosedale High School and the University of Kansas. Later he studied at the George Washington University in Washington DC Jura. In 1921 he made ​​his law degree. During the First World War, he served in a unit of Kansas and was seriously wounded. After the end of the war and his admission to the bar he began a legal career in Wyandotte County.

Political career

Hagamans political rise began in 1935 with his election to the House of Representatives of Kansas. In this body he should remain for ten years. Between 1945 and 1949 he was in the state Senate. In the 1948 elections, he as Vice Governor (Lieutenant Governor ) of Kansas was elected as a candidate of the Republican Party. This office he held until November 28, 1950. On this day, the incumbent Governor Frank Carlson resigned because he wanted to take his seat in the U.S. Senate. Hagamans task was to finish the remaining term of the resigned governor. That was just 41 days. During this time, Hagaman has not set any political accents. Instead, it only manages the office until he could pass it in January 1951, the elected Governor Edward F. Arn. The only political task which he had to overcome, was the adoption of the budget. During this time he has with Arn, against whom he was inferior in the elections of 1950 in the primaries of the party worked.

Further CV

After his retirement from the office of Governor on January 8, 1951 Hagaman withdrew from political life. He returned to his legal practice. In this capacity he negotiated cases before courts in Kansas, Missouri and even before the Supreme Federal Court. Frank Hagaman died in June 1966 and was buried in Denver.