 He has also owned and operated the Charlotte, North Carolina-based Hanson Enterprises since 1994.Hanson was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, on June 16, 1947.He earned a bachelor's degree in Education from St. Benedict’s College (now Benedictine College) in Atchison, Kansas, in 1968; two years later, in 1970, Hanson earned his master's degree in Education from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.