Peter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was an American politician from the U.S. state of

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. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the

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from 1989 to 1995.

Biography

Hoagland was born in

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, and graduated from

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and then

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in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the

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from 1963 to 1965 during the

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. He graduated from

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in 1968 and was admitted to the bar the same year. He set up practice in

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, as a clerk to Judge

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of the

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from 1969 to 1970. He was a staff attorney at the District of Columbia public defender service from 1970 to 1973.

Political career

Hoagland was elected to the

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in 1978 and served until 1986 when he declined to seek re-election.

Congress

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, when

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decided to run for the

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, Hoagland ran for the open seat and was elected to serve in the 101st Congress. Hoagland's freshman term in the House was the subject of the book ''House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington'' by journalist Robert Cwiklik. He was re-elected in 1990 and 1992. In

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, he was defeated for re-election by Jon Christensen; his defeat was attributed to the

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. No other Democrat would be elected to represent Nebraska in the U.S. House until

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was elected in 2014. Throughout his terms in Congress, Hoagland was a strong advocate for the environment. In 1990, The League of Conservation Voters released a National Environmental Scorecard ranking members of Congress on their environmental voting records. Peter Hoagland scored a perfect 100%.

Other activities

He was a member of the

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church and the

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. In 1977, he was elected to the

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National Governing Board. After leaving Congress in 1995, Hoagland lived in

, where he worked for a law firm.

Illness and death

Hoagland suffered from

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for the last five years of his life. He died in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 2007, at age 65.

References

External links

Retrieved on 2008-07-20
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at ''

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