Daniel Kagan | |
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| Member of the Colorado Senate from the 26th district | |
| In office January 11, 2017 – January 11, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Linda Newell |
| Succeeded by | Jeff Bridges |
| Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 3rd district | |
| In office March 30, 2009 – January 11, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Anne McGihon |
| Succeeded by | Jeff Bridges |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 1953 (age 71) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Faye |
| Children | 3 |
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| Alma mater | George Washington University Yale Law School |
| Website | www.dankagan.com |
Daniel Kagan (born January 1953) is an American politician who served in the Colorado Senate from the 26th district from 2017 to 2019, and in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 3rd district from 2009 to 2017, as a member of the Democratic Party.
Kagan was born to Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan and educated in the United States at George Washington University and Yale Law School. He gained citizenship in the United States in 1984, and worked in Washington, D.C. until he moved back to the United Kingdom with his family in 1995. He turned to the United States in 2005, and served as a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
He was appointed to replace Representative Anne McGihon in the state house in 2009, and won reelection in the 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections and was elected to the state senate in the 2016 election. During his tenure in the state legislature he served as the chair of the Judiciary committee. Kagan resigned from the legislature in 2019 after being accused of using the women's bathroom multiple times.