Chuck Hagel

Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is the senior United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002.

Bev Harris, an electronic voting activist, has raised concerns that Hagel's Senate victories may have been due to tampering with electronic votes. Chuck Hagel is affiliated with an electronic voting machine company which collected 80% of the votes in the 2002 election.

Born in North Platte, Nebraska, he graduated from the Brown Institute for Radio and Television in 1966 and from the University of Nebraska in 1971. He served in the U.S. Army infantry, attaining the rank of Sergeant (E-5) from 1967-68, serving during the Vietnam War in 1968.

In August 2004, Hagel acknowledged that he is pondering a presidential campaign in 2008. He spoke to the Iowa delegation at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Hagel would probably run an anti-establishment, insurgent campaign similar to that of his closest friend in the Senate, John McCain.