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Michele Lepore-Hagan (born April 4, 1955) is the Representative of the 58th district of the
Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in Ch ...
. She defeated three other opponents in the Democratic primary to take the nomination. She is married to
Bob Hagan Robert F. Hagan (born March 31, 1949) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who held a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 58th District from 2007 to 2014. He represented the same seat from 1987 to 1997, an ...
, who served in the Ohio General Assembly for 28 years. When Bob Hagan was term-limited in 2014 from running for another term, Lepore-Hagan entered the race to succeed him. Prior to running for the seat, Lepore-Hagan worked for
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as the Director for the university's performing arts series. She also lived in
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for a time as an aspiring performer. She is a graduate of
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. Lepore-Hagan was unopposed in the general election.


Controversy

In 2020, a representative from the
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-based African Education Party, claimed that Lepore-Hagan made racist remarks regarding House Bill 70.


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