Allied with the Byrd Organization, Hagood represented a district centered around Halifax County part-time for three decades.
Born on November 4, 1889, in the small crossroads town of La Crosse, Virginia in rural Mecklenburg County to the former Florence Cleaton and her husband James Gholson Hagood.
[2] After her death, in 1936 he married Wirt Carrington Jordan (whose ancestors on both sides had long governed Halifax County), who survived him.
However, in 1922, with help from the Commonwealth and Red Cross, Halifax county employed its first health officer, as well as nurses, who would continue to address sanitation and other concerns.
[1] One of his main accomplishments as a legislator after World War II was creating the Halifax Community Hospital in South Boston, as advocated by Rev.
South Boston, the largest Halifax county town and government seat, became an independent city in 1960 (although it would rescind that status in 1995) and so was added to the 4th district in the 1963 election.