Hagan's constituent service background

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on November 20, 2008 - 2:31pm.
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Sen.-elect Kay Hagan has firsthand experience in constituent service.

For six months between when she graduated from college in 1975 and started law school, the Greensboro Democrat volunteered for her uncle, Florida Sen. Lawton Chiles.

For three-fourths of the day, she handled constituent service, and then for the remainder of her time she would help run the senators' elevator.

(U.S. senators have a special elevator that the public is not allowed to ride in unless invited. It is now professionally run.)

Hagan has an unusual tie with one of the other interns from her time in Washington.

Don Vaughan, who worked for then Sen. Robert Morgan of North Carolina, won Hagan's old state Senate seat in the November election.

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