John H. Hager - Family and Early Life

Family and Early Life

Growing up in Durham, Hager started a neighborhood newspaper in 1945. While an undergraduate at Purdue University he ran a vending machine business, was an active member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and was a member of ROTC. One term, his course load was 25 credit hours – about two thirds more than normal. He was graduated with a BSME (mechanical engineering) in 1958. Both his parents, Virgil and Ruth Hager, were 1928 Purdue alumni. Hager earned his MBA at Harvard in 1960, and subsequently served in the Army, rising to the rank of Captain.

Hager married Margaret Dickinson "Maggie" Chase on February 27, 1971; with whom he has two sons, John (b. 1973) and Henry (b. 1978). Hager's younger son, Henry, married former President George W. Bush's fraternal twin daughter, Jenna on May 10, 2008 at her parents' Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. He contracted polio when his son was vaccinated for the disease with live virus vaccine in 1973. As a result, he uses a nonmotorized wheelchair for daily ambulation – and competes in wheelchair races.

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