David Hahn (born 1955 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American businessman and the

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of Internet development company New Digital Group and was the

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nominee for Governor of Nebraska in 2006.

Biography

Hahn was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1955 and spent most of his youth in Schuyler and

Stromsburg Stromsburg is a city in Polk County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,028 as per the 2020 census. History Stromsburg was settled early in Nebraska history. A group of Swedish settlers from the town of Ockelbo arrived in the 1860 ...

, Nebraska. When he was 15 years old, his family moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, and he graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1973. In 1978, he graduated from Sterling College in Kansas with a bachelor's degree in political science and

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. His undergraduate education included a year studying philosophy and theology at Phillips University in Marburg, Germany. After college, he returned to his home state and obtained a J.D. degree in 1981 from the University of Nebraska. Hahn practiced law throughout the 1980s in

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, Lincoln, Nebraska, and

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. His hobby of

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eventually grew into New Digital Group, a company he founded in 1995. Hahn announced his intention to run for Governor of Nebraska in December 2005. His only competition in the

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was Glenn Boot Jr. of Ashland, Nebraska who was disqualified due to a previous felony conviction. Hahn selected Wilcox, Nebraska farmer Steve Loschen as his

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running mate and faced Nebraska party candidate Barry Richards, independent Mort Sullivan, and incumbent Republican Governor Dave Heineman in the November 7, 2006

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which he lost with 24% of the vote.

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External links

Campaign Website
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