Peter Hoagland

Peter D. Hoagland ( born November 17, 1941 in Omaha, Nebraska, † October 30, 2007 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1989 and 1995 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Hoagland attended the public schools in Omaha. After the Omaha high school, he studied until 1963 at Stanford University in California. Between 1963 and 1965 he did his military service in the U.S. Army and then he studied at the Faculty of Law, Yale University law. After his 1968 is admitted to the bar he began in Washington DC to work in this profession. In the years 1969 and 1970 he was assistant to the Federal Judge Oliver Gasch. From 1970 to 1973 he was assigned counsel in the federal capital.

Politically Peter Hoagland was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1978 and 1986 he was a member of the Nebraska Legislature. In 1988, he was selected in the second district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Hal Daub on January 3, 1989. In the years 1990 and 1992, he was confirmed in his mandate. After he had the Republican Jon Lynn Christensen inferior in congressional elections in 1994, he had to leave on January 3, 1995 Congress. During his time in Congress to Hoagland continued resolutely for the environment.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Hoagland worked as a lawyer in a law firm in Washington. In the last five years of his life Hoagland struggled with Parkinson 's disease. He died in 2007 at the age of 65 years. Together with his wife, Barbara, whom he had five children.