Peter Hoagland
Peter Jackson Hoagland[1] (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska.Hoagland was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 1978 and served until 1986 when he declined to seek re-election.In 1988, when Hal Daub decided to run for the U.S. Senate, Hoagland ran for the open seat and was elected to serve in the 101st Congress.Hoagland's freshman term in the House was the subject of the book House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington by journalist Robert Cwiklik.After leaving Congress in 1995, Hoagland lived in Washington, D.C., where he worked for a law firm.