RICHARD HAGAN

Richard C. Hagan, 85, 3120 Independence, died Thursday, July 18, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center.

He was born Jan. 31, 1911, in Griggsville, Ill., son of the late Warren L. and Mabel Bruner Hagan.

He married Lois Holder Hagan in June 1940 in New York City.

Hagan was a retired major general with the U.S. Air Force and worked for many years with the U.S. State Department.

He earned a doctorate in law from the University of Illinois and a master's degree from Columbia University. He was a University Fellow at Columbia, and later attended Kaiser Friederick Wilhelm University in Bonn, Germany. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Hagan held several important posts with the Allied Military Government in Germany during the war crimes trials following World War II, including acting chief of the justice branch of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. From 1950 through 1969, he also served as secretary general for the International Conference on Water for Peace, and acting director of the Water for Peace Office; deputy undersecretary of state for economic affairs; deputy executive director of U.S. delegations for the United Nations International Conferences on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and numerous other posts as secretary or adviser to other U.S. delegations.

He further served as assistant to the Judge Advocate General for the Air Force; organizer of the Military Law Section of the Inter-American Bar Association for the Defense Department; established the Albert M. Kuhlfeld Award to recognize the outstanding young judge advocate of the U.S. Air Force; secretary and adviser to the U.S. delegations on the first International scientific meeting on the Polar Bear and the Ninth General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

He is survived by his wife; a son, Richard D. Hagan of Marion, Ill.; a daughter, Ann Kief of Tallahassee, Fla.; two brothers, Phillip of Sterling, Ill., and Wallace of Lexington, Ky.; and three grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother.

Visitation will be Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.

Burial will be July 30 at 1 p.m. in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington.